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Originally Posted by toretorden
DNA are very long molecules made up of 4 repeating parts and you can imagine it almost as a long double strand of letters (A, C, G, T).
AGCTTCGTC
GATCCTACT These letters are complementary (a C on one side means a T on the other) and can be read like a code. The DNA codes for proteins. The chemical processes in your body are catalyzed by enzymes which are proteins whose blueprints are found in the DNA. |
Just to nitpick, A (adenine) is complementary to T (thymine) and G (guanine) is complementary to C (cytosine). Triplets of these also code for amino acids, which in turn generate chains of protein with specific structures related to their function. Just to elaborate.
