Deoxyribonucleic Acid
What is DNA?
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Deoxyribonucleic Acid or DNA is in short terms is the blue print for living organisms. DNA is found in eukaryotic cells. DNA tells your body how to do certain body functions. DNA is something that scientists know a lot about and yet there is still some much to learn about DNA. DNA is made of sugars, phosphates, and nucleic acids. The structure of a DNA strand is very similar to a twisted ladder.
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DNA Strand
DNA is a double helix such as this picture here.
DNA make-up
This is a picture of show what DNA is made of the red indicates the sugars of the DNA strand, blue indicates the phosphates in the strand, while the green show the hydrogen bonds of DNA.
DNA location
DNA is found in the chromosomes that lie within the nucleus of the cell.
What does DNA do?
DNA contains the instructions for making proteins each protein in coded with a gene which determines physical characteristics of organisms. The encrypted proteins tell the cell what to do.
Heredity
is the passing of genes.
DNA Replication
is when DNA makes a copy of itself.
Protein Production
is the work of RNA strands being decoded and which later forms proteins.
What is RNA
or Ribonucleic acid is a polymeric molecule. It is implicated in a varied sort of biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation, and expression of genes. RNA is a nucleic acid along with proteins and carbohydrates, and three other major molecules essential for all known forms of life.