Who Controls Your DNA

Who Controls Your DNA? Ever wondered what DNA is or who controls your DNA? Well, for one thing it’s not something that you could eat or wear. DNA is made up of molecules called nucleotides that contain a phosphate group, a sugar group and a nitrogen base. There are 4 types of nitrogen base and they are adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine. These four bases are what determine DNA’s genetic code. It is crucial to know that DNA is inherited from both mother and father. In other words, DNA inherits 23 chromosomes from each parent which is a total of 46 chromosomes in you. That is how you are created because the 46 chromosomes hold the diagram for a human body. Despite the fact that you inherit 23 chromosomes from each parent it does not

Each base are paired up together in order to create DNA. For example, in the article Base pairs it states “Attached to each sugar ring is a nucleotide base, one of the four bases Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Cytosine (C), and Thymine (T). The first two (A, G) are examples of a purine which contains a six atom ring and five atom ring sharing two atoms. The second two (C, T) are examples of a pyrimidine which is composed of a single six atom ring…” To clarify, this statement is trying to explain that when adenine is paired up with guanine it is an example of purine, but when cytosine is paired up with thymine it is an example of pyrimidine. Purine contains a six atom ring and a five atom ring that shares two atoms while pyrimidine contains a single six atom ring. The base pair is when “thymine is paired up with adenine and guanine is paired up with cytosine” as stated in the article Exploring the Molecules of Life:

All humans have the same bases, structure, and components in their DNA, the only difference are the combination of the bases in our DNA. For example, in the article DNA and proteins are key molecules of the cell nucleus it states “In tetranucleotide block where the nucleotides can appear more than once and the order is random more than once and the order is random, there can be 256 possible combinations”. Another example is that in the slideshow DNA testing a look behind the genes it explains that a father can have brown eyes (BB) and a mother can have blue eyes (bb), but the child can have either of the eyes. It also shows that a father has wide brown eyes (BB) and a mother has wide brown eyes (BB), but the child has small brown eyes (BB). The last example that was shown in the slide show was that a father has small blue eyes (bb) and a mother has small blue eyes (bb), but the child has big blue eyes (bb). This is an example of what we call a recessive gene and a dominant gene. To clarify, all humans have the same bases, design and components, but every individual has different combinations in their DNA, which is what makes you