REBROADCAST...what genes are? (with Carla Easter)
Ever Wonder? from the California Science Center
English - May 24, 2023 15:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBScience Education science engineering museums science centers Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This summer, we opened a brand-new exhibit called Life! Beginnings in our World of Life gallery. Life! Beginnings invites our guests to discover how humans and all living creatures reproduce, develop, and pass on their genes in order to bring new life into the world.
At its core, reproduction is all about passing on genes to the next generation.
Do you ever wonder what genes are?
And how much do our genes actually tell us about who we are, where we come from, and what we might become in the future?
To try to answer some of these big questions, we spoke to Dr. Carla Easter at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She served as a scientific advisor for Life! Beginnings, and has spent much of her career helping the public learn about genetics. We had a fascinating conversation about our complicated and often misunderstood relationship with our genes.
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