![]() ![]() Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Project (which mapped the human DNA structure) said that one can "think of DNA as an instructional script, a software program, sitting in the nucleus of the cell." 5 ![]() This code identifies you and continually instructs your cells' behavior. Yet, inside every cell in you is a three-billion-lettered DNA structure that belongs only to you. government is able to identify everyone in our country by the arrangement of a nine-digit social security number. 4 What is uniquely you comes in the fractional difference in how those three billion letters are sequenced in your cells. It has been determined that 99.9% of your DNA is similar to everyone's genetic makeup. To grasp the amount of DNA information in one cell, "a live reading of that code at a rate of three letters per second would take thirty-one years, even if reading continued day and night." 3 Wait, there's more. What is amazing is that within the tiny space in every cell in your body, this code is three billion letters long!! 2 ![]() The order in which they are arranged instructs the cell's actions. Much like the ones and zeros, these letters are arranged in the human cell like this: CGTGTGACTCGCTCCTGAT and so on. In the same way, DNA is made up of four chemicals, abbreviated as letters A, T, G, and C. ![]()
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