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DNA Basics | Ask A Biologist
DNA is the ultimate how-to guide used by all living things. It packages all the instructions for building maintaining all our life forms and it easily fits inside a cell.Also in: Español
Our DNA is one of the ultimate instruction guides. It is more complex than any how-to book you have ever used. The full set of instructions is so long that it would take more than 3,000 books to print it out. Each book would have 1,000 pages and each page 1,000 letters. To read these instructions would take more than nine years. Even if you had the time to read all of them, there is a catch. The entire instruction guide is written in code. A simple set of letters “A T G C” are all that you would find on the pages.
DNA is the equivalent of 3,000 books, each of which are 1,000 pages long.
A book would obviously have to have an author, so this suggests that DNA must have a creator. Discuss.