In this project me and Mika were partners so we made the DNA strand together.
This is a photo of when we first got the materials, before we started:
And this was our final product:
This is a DNA strand, it is located in the nucleus and contains 4 nucleotides arranged in a double-helix. The four different types of nucleotides are: Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Thymine (T) and Cytosine (C). They are arranged in pairs. A (Adenine) is always beside T (Thymine) and G (Guanine) is always beside C (Cytosine). You can read a DNA strand by looking at a gene. A gene is one half of the DNA strand and you can read by seeing each letter and linking it with its pair. A single DNA strand is a part of a chromosome which humans have 46 of. A chromosome is also made up of various kinds of proteins. Proteins are made when a gene is copied. This copy is called RNA. RNA is taken out of the nucleus out of the nucleus pores and brought to a ribosome. The ribosome reads the RNA 3 nucleotides at a time and creates proteins with it.