Edible DNA

Questions

1. Every cell in your body has DNA which is your bodys genetic code, DNA exists as to long strands opposite of eachother thats spiraling called a chromosome. DNA is like a blue print that tells your body how to grow and develop.

2. The licorice acts as the sugar phosphate backbone and the marshmallows acts as bases (Green for Guanine, Pink for Cytosine, Yellow for Adenine and Orange for Thymine).

3. The activity helped me understand by using other objects to replicate what the DNA looks like in person.

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