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The Interesting History and Facts of DNA Kevin T. Hoang James Martin High School Abstract This paper explores the history and some interesting facts about DNA. The last couple centuries have seen an exponential growth in our knowledge of DNA. The history of the DNA can be traced back to multiple devoted scientist. This article attempts to summarize, and review the basic history of DNA while providing some fascinating information about it. A Brief Historic Review Throughout

Part B: Report DNA Profiling: Is it ethical to have national DNA database system? Introduction: Today, the advancing gene technology provides humanity with numerous benefits such as Genetically Modified Food, CRISPER, and one of them is the use of DNA profiling for storing bio-information. DNA fingerprint technology allows mapping of individual’s genetic patterns that can be stored into the database system (What is DNA fingerprint? 2016). The ability to profile gene effectively, DNA fingerprinting

DNA: Structure and Replication 1. Describe and compare the chemical compositions of DNA and RNA. DNA and RNA are nucleic acids; they are characterized by being long chains that are called polymers, from other units called nucleotides. With the DNA and RNA, it is expected to have a variety of polynucleotide chains. The nucleotides are intertwined by means of covalent bonds between sugar of a nucleotide and the phosphate of the next. This results in an ordered backbone pattern. As well as the DNA

DNA is found in everything everywhere. DNA is shaped like a double helix, which means it is double stranded and is connected by hydrogen bonds. Mendel did an experiment that showed the principles behind inheritance. The structure of DNA essentially explains how genetic information is passed from the parents to the offspring. One of the two strands in the double helix of DNA can be used as a blank template for creating an identical DNA molecule. Then sexual reproduction happens and genetic information

The DNA saga started in 1869, when Swiss biochemist Friedrich Miescher isolated a new substance from the nuclei of white blood cells. Researchers were recently aware that cells were the basic unit of life and Miescher was interested in their chemical components. Each morning, he called at the local clinic to pick up dirty bandages, for in the days before antiseptics these were soaked in pus - a good source of white blood cells with their large nuclei. Adding alkali made the cell nuclei burst open

and manipulating DNA has transformed genetics. The cloning plasmid shown in figure 16.1 is one example of the tools that are now available. These techniques have permitted biologist to occur directly in the genetic fate of organisms for the first time, the ability to directly isolate and manipulate genetic material was one of the most profound change in the twenty first century, plasmid vectors (small, circular chromosomes) are typically used to clone relatively small pieces od DNA, up to a maximum

damaged DNA seems to be an understudied subject, there is much to understand on the restoration of DNA damage, repair and DNA methylation. Genomic DNA can be modified by methylation but much of it is affected on a gene when silenced. When epigenetic modification has been implicated with cancer and aging it causes DNA methylation to also have an impact on the double strand of DNA analysis. Modification as such provoke deteriorating changes like aging found in multicellular organisms and DNA damage

DNA is Not Destiny Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) is made up of nucleotides which contain three parts: a phosphate group, a sugar group, and one of four types of nitrogen bases. DNA then forms a double helix, with alternating phosphate and sugar groups linked to a chain of nucleotides. DNA is important because it gives instructions to an organism on how to develop, survive, and reproduce through DNA sequences. These sequences contain instructions on how to make proteins, which are complex molecules

suspect, but such is the case with DNA profiling. Throughout the past few decades, DNA profiling has evolved immensely from a genetic fingerprint discovered by Sir Alec Jeffreys in 1984 into an aspect of everyday forensics affecting millions of cases and trials today. Since a suspect’s conviction or acquittal rests on the proper collection of DNA evidence, regulations have been put into place, as a result of the ‘DNA wars’, to ensure the evidence is admissible. DNA profiling has been made famous through

The study of geologically ancient DNA began in 1984 with Russell Higuchi and a handful of other scientists. Hoping to determine whether ancient DNA survived and could be retrieved from samples of preserved soft tissue, they examined samples of dried muscle taken from a museum specimen of the quagga. Their attempts to extract genetic material were successful, and the samples yielded slightly less than 1% of the DNA that would have been yielded by fresh muscle; from this, they successfully sequenced