DNA

Dajour Davis

DNA

What is DNA?DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid.

Carries the genetic code.

DNA Adenine (A) guanine (G)cytosine (C)

thymine (T).

A goes with T and C goes with G.

Adenine

• Adenine is an integral part of DNA,

RNA, and ATP.

• Formula: C5H5N5

• Molar Mass: 135.13 g/mol

• Density: 1.60 g/cm

Guanine

What is guanine?

Guanine is a purine base, C 5 H 5 N 5 O, that is a

fundamental constituent of DNA

Molar Mass: 151.1261 g/mol

Cytosine

What is cytosine?Cytosine is A pyrimidine base,

C4H5N3O, that is the constituent of DNA and RNA involved in base-pairing

with guanine.

Thymine

What is Thymine?Thymine is one of the four nucleobases

in the nucleic acid of DNA

How is DNA used?

• Crime• Genetics• Diseases• Paternity• Agriculture

When/How was DNA discovered?

Late 1860sFriedrich Miescher

Watson & CrickDouble Helix

What DNA looks like

Here is a video on DNA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8dk5iS1f0&edufilter=FwNIMIqIDIQYAexPZDE7XA

Work Cited• http://

www.google.com/search?q=dna&safe=active&biw=1280&bih=929&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=tyg5Vbm7FYqwsATdyIHQBQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAA&dpr=1#safe=active&q=what+is+dna

• http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/basics/dna• http://people.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/adenine.html• http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cytosine• http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-of-dna-structure-and-function-watson-397