Monday, October 3, 2011

DNA - Do Now 12

Do Now #12 What is DNA and what does it do?




DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms

http://www.dnai.org/

The genes carry the instructions for making all the thousands of proteins that are found in a cell.  The proteins in a cell determine what that cell will look like and what jobs that cell will do. 



DNA is a double helix formed by base pairs attached to a sugar-phosphate backbone.
 



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