CAN Anybody EXPLAIN WHAT IS DNA IN LAYMEN TERMS AS EASILY?

Question

,IS IT POSSIBLE.DISCOVERY CHANNEL

DOCUMENTERY SAYS IT IS NOT YET BEEN POSSIBLE.IF IT IS SO WILL IT

BE A PANACEA FOR ALL DISEASES.HOW MUCH DOES THE MODERN MEDICINE

KNOWS ABOUT DNA AND ITS ACTIVATION.IS IT TRUE THAT AN AVERAGE

PERSONS DNA IS ACTIVATED APPROXMATELY 3.50% THE REST IS NOT

ACTIVATED JUST LIKE LEARNING CHANNELS SAYS THAT ONLY GENIUSES

USE THEIR CONSCIOUS MIND APPROXIMATELY 7% THE REST IS

UNCONSCIOUS.RECENTLYT ON T.V A PSYCHIATRIST OR PSYCHOLOGIST SAID

THAT WE USE 4000 BITS ON CONSCIOUS LEVEL AND 4 BILLION ON

UNCONCONSCIOUS MIND IS IT TRUE ANY PROOFS OR LINKS.THANKS.

Answer 1

DNA is the "book of knowledge" for life. It contains all the information for a cell to live and replicate. Instead of using letters of the alphabet printed on paper, the cell uses a molecule called "DNA".

DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid.

When you listen to a CD on your CD player, the CD player reads the data off the disk. All the music you hear, is stored on the CD disk as a bunch of tiny little pits burned into the surface of the CD.

When a cell wants to live and replicate, it reads parts of the DNA in the cell much like a CD player reads a CD. Each cell of the human body as A LOT of DNA, unwound, about 9 feet in all.

The sequence of DNA for humans has been decoded. Unfortunately, a lot of the DNA makes proteins, and no one knows how these proteins fold, or what they do. If somebody solved the "protein folding problem", scientists would suddenly know a heck of a lot more about life and death.

Only the DNA that is needed at a particular time is read by the cell. Just like you only listen to certain tracks of music on your CD. And you might never listen to some tracks on the CD. So some DNA in a cell is never read. (DNA is passed on to a new cell similar to how you buy a vegematic and get all the steak knives and other stuff, that you never use.)

Theories about the amount of consciousness utilized by people are just theories, what you heard on Learning Chanel is as correct as anyone else's guess at this time.

Answer 2

DNA- is a set of chemicals - amino acids - they are linked together completementary - (A link to T, C to G) the are held together by a phosphate backbone.... The end up making 2 stands that are twisted together in a helix form.... DNA is the code that tells all the cells in the body what to make or turn into...what proteins to make...what each cell should differentiate into.. It is inherited .an inherited code.... It is in the nucleus of everycell... everyones DNA is slightly different except maybe identical twins... your DNA code though is realitively not that much different than any other living creature including plants.... so that is as simple as I can put it.... didnt think you wanted a scientific defination...

Answer 3

The 'word salad' below your question makes little sense, sorry, hon... You use no periods, all capital letters, no subjects and no verbs. It is all one jumble. I don't know how old you are, but it would be helpful to brush up on your language art skills.... not being able to communicate effectively is likely to hold you back in your quest for a nice life style, and a nice job... Not trying to be insulting, just helpful, hon....

But to answer your question, DNA is simply the recipe to make a living thing. All DNA molecules are alike---each piece of DNA contain the same chemicals, just in different order, just as works are all of the same letters, just in different order, and just as all pages in a book;and the print on those pages are alike, DNA is all alike. The closer two living things are in being related, the more of the DNA is exact. For example, the DNA to make a virus, may be only a few pages long. The DNA to make a human may be as large as a 200 page book. The DNA to make a human is almost exactly the same book as to make a chimp -- our closest living relative. The last two pages would have some differences.... otherwise, only a word or two would be different for the rest of the entire book. Chimps and humans have over 98% of their DNA exactly alike. While humans and horses, have approx. 94% identical. Humans and snakes have approx 60% of it being identical, and humans and insects share less than 15%. But the DNA of an oak tree has identical items and sequences to ours..... we, all of us who are living, share sequences of identical DNA.

Helpful?

Answer 4

deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
: any of various nucleic acids that are usually the molecular basis of heredity, are constructed of a double helix held together by hydrogen bonds between purine and pyrimidine bases which project inward from two chains containing alternate links of deoxyribose and phosphate. http://209.161.33.50/dictionary/DNA


Simply put it is the starting point for life.

Answer 5

Hi. There is a BIG jump between understanding how DNA looks and why it works.

Answer 6

the easiest way to explain what DNA is... it's like a fingerprint for your blood. Noone else has the same DNA like you do, just like a fingerprint.

If you want to know how it works and it's components, sorry can't help you there!