D.N.A-Some of us have heard the word before, and some may actually have superficial knowledge regarding it. But for the sake of everyone, lets look at a few basic facts about the D.N.A

1. D.N.A stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. It is a threadlike substance mostly found in the nucleus of cells, and it contains coded information on how the cells will behave.

2. D.N.A was first identified in 1869 by chemist Friedrich Miescher

3. Nearly all the cells in our body contain D.N.A

4. As already stated, the D.N.A is threadlike in nature, but the thread is shaped like a long twisted ladder. It has groups of rungs called ''base pairs'' which are each made up of two chemical substances from a group of four substances(adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine).

5. Just as a computer stores and processes information, the D.N.A can store information(chemically) and interprete such information in different ways eg, the information stored in the DNA
(as codes) determine how tall you are going to be,
your complexion, the colour of your eyes, that deep
voice you are killing ladies with, that booty guys are dying for, etc, literally evrything about your body's
behaviour. And not to forget, it also determines the
traits you are going to pass on to your offspring.
6. The codes that form the instructions in the DNA
were not understood until the 1960's, almost a
century after the D.N.A was discovered.

7. The D.N.A of one the smallest organisms, bacteria
contains information that can fill a 1000 page book.
8. What about that of a human? The genome(our
complete set of DNA) contains information that can fill
a library of several thousand volumes. So next time
you see that guy you think you are smarter than, give him some respect, he's also a walking library, lol.
There are lots of other facts about the DNA you can
always research on. It just boggles my mind when I
look at myself and wonder how wonderfully I was
made.

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RichDad1:
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Lol. As they say, google is your friend