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What is DNA?
· 11 min · S1 E480
Episode What is DNA?
Have you ever wondered why your hair is curly, or why your eyes are a certain color? The secret is hidden inside you right now! Join Mira and Finn on Science is Not Boring as they shrink down to explore the incredible, invisible world of DNA! DNA is like a massive instruction manual for building YOU. If you took all the tiny twisting "ladders" of DNA inside your body and lined them up, they would stretch all the way from Earth to the Sun and back... over two hundred times!
Discover the four amazing chemical "letters" (A, T, C, and G) that spell out your entire body's unique code. Learn about the brilliant scientist Rosalind Franklin, who took a 62-hour photograph of DNA to reveal its famous twisted shape, known as a double helix. Plus, get ready for some truly wild science facts! Did you know you are 99.9% identical to every other human on Earth? Or that you actually share 60% of your basic genetic instructions with... a banana?!
Tune in for mind-blowing science, a fun trivia quiz, and the amazing secrets of the code of life!
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