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A gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. It is a name given to some stretches of DNA and RNA that code for a polypeptide or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains. Genes hold the information to build and maintain an organism's cells and pass genetic traits to offspring, although some organelles (e.g. mitochondria) are self-replicating and are not coded for by the organism's DNA. All organisms have many genes corresponding to various biological traits, some of which are immediately visible, such as eye color or number of limbs, and some of which are not, such as blood type or increased risk for specific diseases, or the thousands of basic biochemical processes that comprise life.
A modern working definition of a gene is "a locatable region of genomic sequence, corresponding to a unit of inheritance, which is associated with regulatory regions, transcribed regions, and or other functional sequence regions ". Colloquial usage of the term gene (e.g. "good genes", "hair color gene") may actually refer to an allele: a gene is the basic instruction—a sequence of nucleic acids (DNA or, in the case of certain viruses RNA), while an allele is one variant of that gene. Referring to having a gene for a trait is no longer the scientifically accepted usage. In most cases, all people would have a gene for the trait in question, but certain people will have a specific allele of that gene, which results in the trait variant. Further, genes code for proteins, which might result in identifiable traits, but it is the gene, not the trait, which is inherited.
Justin Drew Bieber ( /ˈbiːbər/ BEE-bər, born March 1, 1994) is a Canadian Pop/R&B singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. Bieber was discovered in 2008 by Scooter Braun, who came across Bieber's videos on YouTube and later became his manager. Braun arranged for him to meet with Usher in Atlanta, Georgia, and Bieber was soon signed to Raymond Braun Media Group (RBMG), a joint venture between Braun and Usher, and then to a recording contract with Island Records offered by L.A. Reid. Bieber's debut single, "One Time", was released in 2009 and peaked in the top twenty in Canada and charted in the top thirty in several international markets. His debut album, the seven-track EP My World, followed in November 2009, and was soon certified platinum in the United States. He became the first artist to have seven songs from a debut album chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
Actors: Brianna Matthews (writer), Brianna Matthews (producer), Alexander Epply-Schmidt (writer), Matthew Van Gessel (actor), Sofia Thomasson (miscellaneous crew), Max Wilde (composer), Max Wilde (editor), Sarah Goforth (miscellaneous crew), Thomas Campbell (director), Muhammad Abdullah (actor), Celina Chapin (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: David Carmichael (director), David Carmichael (editor), Eric Schaum (actor), Ari Veach (actor), Alessandra Stadion (actress), Kevin Campbell (producer), Brandon Young (writer), Sam Hood Adrain (actor), Morgan Eschenheimer (actress),
Plot: Four teenage kids are driving back to school from summer break. Just hours away they stop for a rest stop on the side of the road and are soon attacked by a monster in the cornfield. Will they escape and survive or will this be their "Last Stop?"
Genres: Horror, Short,Actors: Brett Rice (actor), Dee Jay Jackson (actor), Chuck Haifley (producer), Garry Chalk (actor), Clifton Powell (actor), Tom Sizemore (actor), Rus Blackwell (actor), Chris Shields (producer), Chris Shields (writer), Chris Shields (actor), Tara Kleinpeter (producer), Tara Kleinpeter (actress), Michael Adam Hamilton (producer), Holly Rochelle (actress), Matthew Mourgides (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: As a capacity crowd holds their breath, sophomore sensation DELROY LINKS falls dead during the biggest game of his career. Simultaneously, Delroy's death effectively ends the career of brand-named college basketball coaching legend, PHIL NEVERS. Rumors allege Nevers chose to withhold reports of Links condition in an effort to secure the conference championship. Two years later, and after a five-year hiatus from competitive athletics, MT. CHRISTOPHER UNIVERSITY reinstates their athletic program. And like most universities looking to jumpstart a newly awakened sports program, they need an influential personality to not only secure a winning team, but to validate the existence of that program. In the case of Mt. Christopher, among the names mentioned as possible head basketball coach is former University of South Alabama head coach, Phil Nevers. Meanwhile, the severe racial restraints of the south challenges a budding friendship between, DREESE WILLIAMS, a humble yet driven young African American basketball player, from the obscure little town of Pelican, Louisiana. And a troubled white teen named MATTHEW SATLER, who is sent to Louisiana to live with his father, after he proves too much to handle for his mother in Montana. These two kids are unwillingly thrown into an unfortunate way of life, and find themselves battling the only thing they can truly count on, each other. As the Saints of Mt. Christopher approach their first season in five years, the journeys of three individuals will end at one destination.....
Genres: Drama,Actors: Terrence Montgomery (actor), Ramon Reyes (composer), Karen McFarlane (actress), Orlando Braun (producer), Stephan Amenta (actor), Jonny Brennan (actor), Hind Metwalli (producer), Hind Metwalli (writer), Hind Metwalli (director), Philip Waller (actor), Hind Metwalli (producer), Samuel Adams (actor), Sanna Choe Lund (costume designer), Paul Sheehan (editor),
Plot: Gene and Finny are best friends and roommates, attending a prep boarding school in New England in 1942. Finny, a natural athlete, is charming and popular, while Gene is a very serious top student at the school. However, when Gene becomes convinced that Finny is trying to sabotage his grades in an attempt to beat him at school, a rift forms between them that only deepens with time. The result of this divide is a tragedy that changes all the boys at the school, and shocks them out of their last innocent days of adolescence.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Jeff Doiron (director), Jeff Doiron (miscellaneous crew), Jeff Doiron (producer), Jeff Doiron (writer), Kaveh Saberi (producer), Kyle Welton (actor), Dan Rocque (writer), Dan Rocque (editor), Peter Abrams (actor), Vincent Walker (actor), Janice Yip (miscellaneous crew), Andrea Minden (composer), Aaron Wintringham (writer), Allison Sanders (actress),
Plot: Gene Emmerich is a blind barber who's famous for his flat top crew cuts. At the peak of his success however, Parkinson's disease has forced him to question his professional longevity. With his talent slipping away, Gene must decide how to end his career.
Keywords: barber, blindness, parkinson's-disease, sawActors: Abby Wathen (actress), Keith Alan Morris (writer), Keith Alan Morris (producer), Keith Alan Morris (editor), Keith Alan Morris (director), Ed Ernstes (actor), Casey Clark (actor), Casey Strand (actress), Sadie Stratton (actress), Kendra Jones (producer), George Cron (actor), Kendra Jones (actress), Scot Purkeypile (actor), Betty Jones (actress), Bryan Schany (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Family,Actors: James Morrison (writer), James Morrison (director), Erich Anderson (actor), Paul Lieber (actor), Lanei Chapman (actress), Ian Sears (editor), Jain Sekuler (miscellaneous crew), Riad Galayini (producer), Lana Hale (miscellaneous crew), Ken Parham (actor), Glenn Campbell (miscellaneous crew), Kirsten Ashley (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: Robert W. Cort (producer), Ted Field (producer), Austin Pendleton (actor), Daryl Hannah (actress), Vincent Schiavelli (actor), Melanie Griffith (actress), Eli Wallach (actor), Joan Cusack (actress), Gabino Diego (actor), Santiago Segura (actor), Danny Aiello (actor), Allan Rich (actor), Sid Raymond (actor), David Trueba (writer), Antonio Banderas (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Actors: Rob Morrow (actor), Jeffrey Nordling (actor), Barry Levinson (actor), Paul Guilfoyle (actor), William Fichtner (actor), Christopher McDonald (actor), Ethan Hawke (actor), Ralph Fiennes (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), Griffin Dunne (actor), Timothy Busfield (actor), Bruce Altman (actor), Mario Cantone (actor), Allan Rich (actor), David Paymer (actor),
Plot: An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation focuses on two contestants on the show "Twenty-One": Herbert Stempel, a brash working-class Jew from Queens, and Charles Van Doren, the patrician scion of one of America's leading literary families. Based on a true story.
Keywords: 1950s, advertising, anti-semitism, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, chocolate-cake, class-differences, columbia-university, congressional-committee, congressional-testimonyActors: Jean Acker (actress), E.K. Lincoln (actor), William H. Tooker (actor), William P. Burt (director), Coit Albertson (actor), Joseph Striker (actor), Martha Mansfield (actress), Natacha Rambova (actress), Harry Grossman (miscellaneous crew), Edward Owings Towne (writer),
Genres: Drama,