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FACTS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT DNA

Added on: 12th Jul 2016

 

MANY THINGS CAN CAUSE

MUTATIONS, INCLUDING UV IRRADIATION FROM

THE SUN, CHEMICALS SUCH AS DRUGS, AND SO ON

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IF ALL THE DNA IN YOUR BODY WAS LAID END TO END,

IT WOULD REACH TO THE SUN AND BACK OVER

SIX HUNDRED TIMES (ONE HUNDRED TRILLION

MULTIPLIED BY SIX FEET DIVIDED BY

NINETY-TWO MILLION MILES)

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IF YOU UNWRAP ALL THE DNA YOU HAVE IN YOUR

CELLS, YOU COULD REACH THE MOON SIX

THOUSAND TIMES!

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GENES ARE PIECES OF DNA PASSED FROM PARENT

TO OFFSPRING THAT CONTAIN HEREDITARY

INFORMATION

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OUR ENTIRE DNA SEQUENCE IS CALLED A GENOME.

ADDITIONALLY, OUR ENTIRE DNA SEQUENCE WOULD

FILL TWO HUNDRED, ONE-THOUSAND-PAGE

NEW YORK CITY TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES

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MANY COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES

AND THE UK, MAINTAIN A DNA DATABASE OF

CONVICTED CRIMINALS

Many countries, including the United States and the UK, maintain a DNA database of convicted criminals.

 

 

DOLLY THE CLONED SHEEP HAD THE SAME

NUCLEAR DNA AS ITS DONOR MUM BUT ITS

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA CAME FROM THE EGG MUM.

HMMM, I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING; IT MAKES

NO SENSE THE WAY IT SOUNDS BUT TRUST US,

IT MAKES SENSE TO THE SCIENTISTS

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MITOCHONDRIAL DNA (MTDNA) IS FOUND IN THE

MITOCHONDRIA AND IS PASSED ONLY FROM

MOTHER TO CHILD BECAUSE ONLY EGGS HAVE

MITOCHONDRIA, NOT SPERM

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