2007-01-25 13:06:20 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I like ecolink's answer. Short, sweet, and quite accurate ;)
2007-01-25 13:13:29 · answer #1 · answered by Kim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, is a long molecule found in every cell in the body with a nucleus. This molecule consists of four bases, adenosine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine, which act as "letters" in the "words" of proteins.
To explain, DNA contains sequences of bases, such as AGT ATT TAC, and each group of 3 bases is called a codon. Each codon corresponds to an amino acid in a protein. In this way, DNA can instruct the cell how to make proteins by telling the cellular machinery what amino acids should be used to make the protein, and in what order they should be used.
2007-01-25 21:24:44 · answer #2 · answered by wemery 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The DNA is the Blue print of the ody. The are the ones who do portein synthesis and without them we're not here. Because they build the structure and the functions including traits for our body
2007-01-25 21:22:22 · answer #3 · answered by musiclover2008 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the DNA has a recall facility, within the cellular structure. It functions as a repository of information that ensures that the organism is copied according to it's plan, and that it does not get copied as something else, such as a human giving birth to a snake.
2007-01-26 02:11:08 · answer #4 · answered by Qyn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DNA is the code to make the protiens in your body. IT tells how to make hair, muscles, skin, anything else you are made up of.
MORE SPECIFICALLY
the nitrogenous bases of adenine thymine cytosine and guanine are grouped in pairs of 3 called codons. these codons link up with the codons of the specific amino acid, called anticodons, to assemble amino acid after amino acid to make a chain of protein.
THINK OF IT LIKE A GIRL's Do-it-yourself jewelry kit
Bead=amino acid
Necklace=protein
DNA= the instruction booklet
2007-01-25 21:25:37 · answer #5 · answered by hmmm.....good question 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DNA serves as the storage of genetic information.
2007-01-25 21:23:11 · answer #6 · answered by An Agent of Chaos 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DNA has the code for how to build the proteins.
2007-01-25 21:12:45 · answer #7 · answered by ecolink 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's like a set of instructions for the cell to function. It codes for protein, codes for RNA that is used in other aspects of cell function, and contains regulatory regions that determine what gene is being expressed as protein.
2007-01-25 21:24:01 · answer #8 · answered by joie_du_cor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋