Teo · 9 answers · 5y

In your own words (i.e., no cheating or I'll eat your ass), what is DNA? What it looks like, what it does, where it is, etc. (I wanna know what ppl who don't think about it all the time understand it to be; no judgment, just curious)

Isn't it that spiral thing with two strings of beads? The strings are chromosomes? I think the beads were labeled with A, G, P, or T, right? Well you said no cheating so I try to remember what the letters stand for. A for adenin, G for guanin, P for petamin, and T for tiamin? I'm 100% sure the spellings are wrong but that's how [I think] I remember pronouncing them. I'm just guessing, OK?! Please don't mock me!

Also I remember chromosomes of type X and Y that somehow determine your gender?

[I'm gonna watch a YouTube video about DNA! I just realized I don't know anything about it.]

I'm probably going to give a really bad, uninformed answer, as I haven't don't anything science related since college and that was ages ago.

But if I remember correctly (probably not), DNA is made up of your chromosomes? All 23 of them? Am I Livi yet?

Dioxyribonuecleic (SP?) Acid... double helix 🧬 shape— chromosomes/genetics... something about protein/amino acid chains. Found in cells— nucleus? I think there is also some in mitochondria— inherited from mom? Long time since freshman biology class.

[07-18-19]

/Dyno??? Nuclayic/ Acid ??? It's a curved ladder like shape (double Helix)? made up of cells(? connected spheres, or that's how it's represented anyway). It holds directions for for how to make organisms(?) their cells(?) their offspring(?) most of it is "fixed"(???) some portions are not(???) It was discovered by Crick and Watson(?)

The farthest I got was "fills the requirement" biology, much of which was promptly forgotten.

deoxybdsacf;bkdcsd acid, it contains the 'blueprint' that makes you you, like the instructions that get copied from parents to offspring. Um, it's a double helix shape? It exists within the nuclei of cells? I will DM you an address to send my honorary PhD in microbiology or whatever, please and thank you

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