Did you know that we share approximately 50% of our DNA with bananas? Humans and pumpkins share 70% of DNA.
Human DNA begins to degenerate at the age of 55.
If al the DNA from your cells were laid out in a line it would reach the sun and back around 70 times and the moon in 6000 times.
As in Jurassic Park , scientists from Japan, Russia, and South Korea are all working on projects to try to bring back the woolly mammoth.
DNA helix
A DNA helix is 40 times smaller than a flu virus and DNA has all the info about how a living organism is meant to function and behave.
The width of DNA helix is equal to the length of ten copper atoms put in line.
DNA gets damaged in every cell approximately 1000 to one billion times every single day and gets repaired. DNA can be damaged by sun UV radiation and by transcription error.
Some people can have two types of DNA under certain circumstances.
It takes roughly eight hours to a cell to replicate its own DNA.
Humans have 46 genes and coffee has 88 genes.
Without DNA, cells could not reproduce, which would mean extinction of the species.
Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Rosalind Elsie Franklin used X-ray diffraction to learn that DNA had a helical structure by the famous photo 51 taken by her student Raymond Gosling. Above all she died at the age of 37 due to cancer produced by using X rays. Later on, Watson and Crick produced their model of helical DNA and were granted Nobel prize after her death.
In forensics 13 specific DNA loci are looked at. The chances of two people with similar profile are 1:1 billion. There is a risk that a sibling or even a total stranger could be wrongly convicted.
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