Hey! It's DNA!

Hey! How’s your DNA? Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) is inside of everyone, and the odd thing is, no two people have the same DNA! How cool! DNA has the structure of a double helix, which is made up of Deoxyribose. Together with the Deoxyribose, there are little strands of Phosphate. Who would have ever thought? DNA contains YOUR genetic information. It is very intriguing how DNA stores almost everything about you! Now, you know how to match socks together right? Two ADIDAS ® go together, and so does a pair of Nike ®. Well, DNA works like that to. The two nitrogen bases that go together are Adenine (A) and Thymine (T). These two never leave each other’s side. Along with this, the other two bases that "stick to each other like glue" are Cytosine (C) and Guanine (G). When these nitrogen bases are conjoined, there are Hydrogen Bonds between them. Now of course a scientist had to discover DNA, but whom? There are so many researchers out in the world, but a few researchers were the ones that help us know what we do today. James D. Watson, and Francis Crick, helped us have the knowledge that we have today. Now these were the scientists that studied a little bit of everything, and that is why they are well known. Scientists like Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins were the researchers that used X-ray diffraction’s of the DNA molecule to identify the structure of DNA. But, the man who started things off was Robert Hooke, who observed honeycomb-shaped structures under his microscope. When Hooke looked at his structures, it surprisingly led to the cell theory. Deoxyribonucleic Acid or DNA is a great thing to learn and I’m very thankful that I had the opportunity to acquire this wisdom. DNA was a topic that I understood very well, and I believe that could have been from the researcher of natural science that gave us all the information that they could to help us understand it more. I didn’t know about the nitrogen bases (A, T, C, and G), and I definitely didn’t know about all of the names of the structures. It was all so new to me, but after this study, I can refer to it very well. What does your DNA look like?

Topic: DNA
Links: (extra information)
http://www.dnai.org/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/dna/episode1/index.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/18617/data/history/history.html