Welcoming DNA to the World

Adopted by: Amanda Plaksin

and Shayne Huttick

DNA’s BirthDNA was born with a strong sugar

phosphate backbone, twisted perfectly in the shape of a double

helix. It’s nucleotides were appropriately bonded by hydrogen

bonds: Guanines with Cytosines and Adenines with Thymines, you know,

the usual. DNA’s strands also are fully functional in self-replicating.

DNA’s Family

DNA lives in chromosomes that makeup gene neighborhoods.

Each are different according to neighborhood.

DNA loves to play with its cousin, RNA, and it enjoys having more of itself around; it separates its own strands so RNA and DNA can play

with them.

Favorite Places

• DNA feels most protected in its chromosome house in the nucleus of a cell, but can live inside every cell in an organism.

DNA is Very Talented:DNA is a pretty smart baby.He has all the information

needed to make genes, and how to use those genes to build protein cities.

His cousin RNA transcribes that information, and RNA is the one that actually does the dirty work.

My Reason for Adoption

DNA will have a good home in every cell of my body; it will roam about my nuclei, copying

itself and sending its cousin RNA to my ribosomes to make more proteins.

It will live on in the cells of my children, and carry my genes for generations.

It is truly a unique molecule that is what makes us different than any other species.

DNA is a happy,healthy, fully-functioning baby.

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/dna/