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What is DNA and why do you think it is important?
DNA is pivotal to our growth, reproduction, and health. It contains the instructions necessary for your cells to produce proteins that affect many different processes and functions in your body. Because DNA is so important, damage or mutations can sometimes contribute to the development of disease.
What is interesting about DNA?
1. Your DNA could stretch from the earth to the sun and back ~600 times. If unwound and linked together, the strands of DNA in each of your cells would be 6 feet long. With 100 trillion cells in your body, that means if all your DNA were put end-to-end, it would stretch over 110 billion miles.
Why should we learn about DNA?
Studying human DNA and genetics can help scientists better understand where humans came from as a species. In some cases, a person’s genome can give clues to his personal ancestry and help him understand his genealogy. Genetic testing has been used to verify or rule out relatedness of individual persons or populations.
What is DNA in simple words?
DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid, which is a molecule that contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, live and reproduce. These instructions are found inside every cell and are passed down from parents to their offspring.
What are two things about DNA?
DNA contains four basic building blocks or ‘bases?’: adenine? (A), cytosine? (C), guanine? (G) and thymine? (T). The order, or sequence, of these bases form the instructions in the genome. DNA is a two-stranded molecule. DNA has a unique ‘double helix’ shape, like a twisted ladder.
Why is DNA so amazing?
Because a person’s DNA must be exactly the same across all the body’s cells, DNA has the fascinating ability to make copies of itself. This is how it stores genetic information and ensures that when a cell divides, the new cells contain exact replicas of the DNA from the original cell.
Do we understand DNA?
We do not know what most of our DNA does, nor how, or to what extent it governs traits. In other words, we do not fully understand how evolution works at the molecular level.
What can we learn from DNA?
These tests analyze a sample of a person’s DNA and look for specific changes associated with different conditions. Often, test results can help doctors diagnose and predict a person’s risk for developing a disease. Other DNA tests can tell people about whether they’re predisposed to certain traits.
What exactly is a DNA?
Deoxyribonucleic acid, more commonly known as DNA, is a complex molecule that contains all of the information necessary to build and maintain an organism. All living things have DNA within their cells. In other words, whenever organisms reproduce, a portion of their DNA is passed along to their offspring.
What is the DNA of a person?
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the fundamental building block for an individual’s entire genetic makeup. It is a component of virtually every cell in the human body. Further, a person’s DNA is the same in every cell. For example, the DNA in a man’s blood is the same as the DNA in his skin cells, semen, and saliva.
Is there anything alive without DNA?
DNA is not living thing, but it is essential part to all the living things. Without DNA the presence of life could not be. It is non-living as it carries the properties of non-living things most than carrying that of living things.
What information does DNA have?
DNA contains the information to make proteins, which carry out all the functions and characteristics of living organisms. DNA carries all of the information for your physical characteristics, which are essentially determined by proteins.
Does everything have DNA?
The short answer is yes. DNA is needed by every living organism as it is the code or information that is needed to allow living organisms to grow, survive and reproduce. Living things are made up of cells, and with DNA these cells just can’t exist!
How does DNA come together?
Nucleotides are the true building blocks of DNA. There are three components of a single nucleotide: one deoxyribose sugar, one phosphate , and one of the four bases. To make a complete DNA molecule, single nucleotides join to make chains that come together as matched pairs and form long double strands.