Alma Mater School: DNA Study Student: Stella

Hello Everyone! Stella here to share a report on DNA. DNA is a fascinating subject that I have been learning about in science this week.
What is DNA? Well, first I must give you a few other definitions.

Atoms: atoms are units of matter, or to put it more simply, "tiny building blocks that make up everything! Yes, even YOU!!!

Molecules: Made up of two (or lots more) atoms, linked together

And finally our study for today:

DNA: Millions of atoms linked together, containing tons of information!!!

Did you know...

...that one DNA molecule would fill 1,000 books, each of which would be 500 PAGES LONG! Absolutely amazing right?
(By the way, the answer is yes...)

Below is a portion of DNA, found in my science textbook: Exploring Creation with General Science.

The DNA backbone is shown by the silver band. Then there is the cytosine, guanine, thymine, and adenine.
Wait, slow down... seeto laneen thya ada what?

So, these words are phonetically spelled below:

Adenine (ad' uh neen)

Thymine (thy'meen)

Guanine (gwah' neen)

Cytosine (sy' tuh zeen)

These are the units attached to the strands, called nucleotide (noo' klee oh tide) bases. Okay, bear with me here.

These contain all of the information. But these bases CANNOT link together in just any way. They must link together like this:

Thymine and Adenine

Guanine and Cytosine

Want to have an example?
Then here it is below...

~My Experiment~

Supplies:

Several Pipe Cleaners
4 different colors of beads, several of each color
Scissors (the kind that cut through pipe cleaners)

I sorted out the beads. Mine were as follows:

Red: Thymine

Pink: Adenine

Orange: Guanine

Green: Cytosine

I took the pipe cleaners and looped them around a pencil so they would get twisted with five little loops along it. I made two of these and laid them facing each other loops toward each other, like so:

I then cut little strips of a different colored pipe cleaner. (It doesn't necessarily have to be a different color; it was just easier for me to visualize it that way. :) )

I then took the beads and was careful to put the adenine and thymine together and the guanine and cytosine together.

I beaded two beads on each little strip of pipe cleaner and twisted each end into a loop, connecting the two looped pipe cleaners.

I did this along all five loops.

Here is the finished product....


Many, many, many thanks to Apologia Science for their help with this post! :D :D :D