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Dying Your Hair Does Not Change Your Genes

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Hi Kristina,
To answer your first question, no dying your hair does not change your genes. Even though you change your hair to red you will eventually grow out brown roots. You’ll have to constantly dye your hair if you want to continue to be a red head because you’re still a brunette due to your genes. Dying your hair is a superficial change that won’t molecularly change your genes. For your second question, some genes have the information to make proteins through processes called transcription and translation. Genes are made up of DNA and transcription uses the DNA to make complementary RNAs. The mRNA secreted from RNA carries the opposite reading of the gene read out of the nucleus and tRNAmakes contact with other strands of RNA to translate

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