The Stuff of Life for the Classroom
Undesirable mutations often cause disease. Responsible for these mutations are the Dinky Amigos who make up your DNA. They gallivant about within the double helix and sometimes end up in the wrong place, giving the wrong instruction to your body and causing health problems. Scientists have been manipulating the position of the Dinky Amigos for […]
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Cash for genes, anyone? We’ve all got them (genes, that is) and someone somewhere may be using them to generate extra funds. How? You ask. How dare they! You cry – or maybe not? The Polymerase Chain Reaction (or PCR for short) has been around for sometime. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993, Mullis and Smith
The Dinky Amigos spend much of their time in a double line (or double strand) paired with their best friends. The line is not straight. Rather it wiggles into a shape that looks something like a spiral staircase. This is known as a double helix. Sometimes, however this double strand has to split and become two