What is DNA?

exquisitely, let me help you start off with the positions, deoxyribonucleic acid stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Sound same(p) a mouthful? Dont worry youll get used to it. Anyway, from reading the title you arsehole suggest that DNA is pretty important, its what e trulything living on the planet is make out of, from a tiny piece of bacteria, to the tallest tree in the world. Cells argon a little bit bigger, but not that much bigger, theyre still hidden to the naked eye.Alright, thats enough introduction for now, lets get into some Deoxyribonucleic Acid DNA is really important, from back in the billions of years ago without much life when the about lively thing on earth were bacteria, they were made out of DNA. Those bacteria were hardly Prokaryotic cadres, but well get into that later. You can think of DNA uniform some code on a computer program, its what makes it, without it, youve got nothing. It makes up the organism, tells it how to make more of itself, and displays w hat it can and cannot do.DNA is made out of a sneeze called ATCG which stands for Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine. ATCG in DNA are called nucleotides. Its structure is a double helix, it looks the likes of a spiral staircase almost, or a spiral ladder. Adenine is connected by means of a bond made out of hydrogen atoms to Thymine, and moreover Thymine.The same goes for Cytosine and Guanine. These four substances can be arranged into almost anything, from a virus to the Chromosome of a Cell. DNA is you in a sense. It makes up everything you are, everything mountain to the smallest construct of you. Even down to the tiniest of red blood cells, theres DNA there too. Fun fact, matchless of the only things able to reach down far enough to let on those hydrogen bonds I talked about earlier is called ribonucleic acid Which is what were about to get down into right now There are many types of RNA.Think of RNA like half of a DNA strand. Instead of DNA being Deoxyribonucleic Aci d, RNA is conscionable Ribonucleic Acid, no more of that Deoxy stuff, it sounds like a detergent. Anyway well be going over just 3 types of RNA, mRNA, rRNA and tRNA. Just a quick fact before we get into RNA, RNA contains AUCG.RNA is Adenine, Uracil ,Cytosine, and Guanine, all the same holds true for the bonding. Cytosine still binds to Guanine and Guanine only, but Adenine only bonds to Uracil now mRna is messenger RNA. No, not that messenger app on your ph single, mRNA is what copies half of the DNA strand information and sends off the DNA age information down to the tRNA, which is the next step in this whole DNA reproduction The tRNA is what transfers that information down to the next stage rRNA. rRNA is the ribosomal or liquidator RNA.It receives the rRNA and just builds that other half of the DNA and just rinse and repeat afterward that. All of this is happening inside you right now constantly until you die. Alright Lets get into components Not those pants youre wearing, we re talking about genetic genes. And as such lets talk about a person for a moment. His name was Gregor Mendel, He was born in 1822 and died in 1884. But lets talk about what happened in among those points. Gregor mendel is referred to the father of genetics.A long time ago he had an try out with pea plants. He took a pink pea plant, and a white pea plant, and cross breed them, meaning he took a seed from one and pollen from another and put them together. After all the seeds grew up, he got 100% pink pea plants and 0% white ones. How could this be? he thought.He performed the experiment once again and he got 75% pink and 25% white ones. This is due to Dominant and Recessive Genes. A dominant gene, in this case was the pink leaf. The recessive gene was the white one. Lets say the white petals were ww chromosomes and the pink ones were PP. Remember how I said DNA could display what is could or could not do? well the chromosomes are just that. Only ww could make up white, but PP and Pw could make up pink.Cross breeding would get you 16 different results. And to how reproduction works you only languish down one of those chromosomes. So all of them came out pink if you do the math, thats the only possible combination being Pw. But cross breeding those ii again gave him another 16 results, but this time, it wasnt PP vs ww, it was Pw vs Pw. And as such, the results were 4 white and 12 pink, because you only have 1/4th chance of getting a ww. And the others were either Pw or PP.And thats how recessive and dominant genes work. Now. Lets talk about something called Cells, I hunch over youve heard of them, reader. Cells are made up of a membrane define nucleus, lots of ribosomes, mitochondria, the Golgi apparatus and the soft and hard endoplasmic reticulum and a little bit of cytoplasm for filling. Lets start off with the center of a cell, the nucleus. The nucleus is the embrace of the cell, however the nucleus is like a casing for the nucleolus, like the brain of the cell.The nucleolus is surrounded by chromosomes, which are in every cell, and those chromosomes look like a giant, but still tiny X. Farther out from the nucleus, we have the Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) right outside. The ER is useful in modifying and transporting proteins. Some of the time they curb put in the ER and sometimes they go out onto the Golgi apparatus The Golgi apparatus is like the boxing part of the factory, it packages the proteins into lipids and vesicles.A lipid is what that makes up the cell membrane, like the outside shell. A vesicle is this bubble that actually leaves the cell and releases the proteins to other cells in the area. This is constantly happening inside your body as you are reading this. As you probably learned in biology some day that the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Something else that is really cool is that mitochondria have their own DNA that is specific to them, not shared throughout the cell.However mitochondrial DNA is hig hly susceptible to mutations because it does not have robust DNA. privileged the mitochondria is adenosine triphosphate or you can just call it ATP for short. ATP is energy for cells, it can transfer energy, and is sometimes referred to as the currency of the cells. Another thing they do is that they generate heat and help with signaling activities, and mediate cell growth and death. The number of mitochondria in the cell varies, like say in the liver, there are sometimes hundreds of mitochondria for energy to break down foods.Now, we are going to talk about ready Cells. Actually, before we go and talk about Plant cells, lets talk about the difference between them. Plant cells are very similar to Animal cells, but Plant cells have Cell Walls, and Chloroplasts. Thats pretty much it actually. Most of the rest is the same. You all know that plants perform photosynthesis, turning light energy into food, or ATP. But how do they do it? Well it starts was down in the cells with something called chloroplasts.This is something that animal cells do NOT have. Inside a chloroplast is many of these little green disks called thylakoids. These thylakoids contain chlorophyll, thats where the magic happens. If you didnt know, chlorophyll is green, and that is the major role in what makes most leaves and most plants green Thats why spacious trees have so many leaves. They need so much food, so they need a wide area to capture sunlight,. Alright, lets get into some hi boloney.Plant and animal cells are called Eukaryotes and Im about to talk about something much older. Prokaryotes are 2 billion years older than Eukaryotes. Fun fact Eukaryotes came from Prokaryotes. Prokaryotes are very simple, they only have a singular but long strand of DNA that just floats inside the cell. Prokaryotes are just bacteria, thats the domain they belong to. The story on how Prokaryotes become Eukaryotes is that one day a Prokaryote swallows another bacterium, and the relationship works nicely.Tha t other bacterium is called mitochondria. so when the cell reproduced through binary program fission it split half of the mitochondria, and then the cycle repeated and other things were engulfed and then evolution came and then suddenly you have a Eukaryote after 2 billion years. But now, lets talk about our final category, Viruses. Everybody has heard of them and been infected by them, but what are they?s you may have guessed there are many different types of viruses. This is Called biological diversity. If there were only one virus in the world, we would become immune and the virus would die off without hosts. Viruses can only survive if they have host cells, and all viruses want to do is spread as far and wide as possible.