What is the genetic code

By: Brandon Nez

            DNA is a word that we hear a lot about especially in class, form our bio teachers, and even in the law enforcement.  But what is it, and where can you find this organic serial code?  Also, is DNA helpful to the common individual? As put by MR. DNA Sequence form the first Jurassic Park movie made back in 1993; “Just one drop of your blood contains billion strands of DNA, the building blocks of life. A DNA strand like me is the blue print to building a living thing.”

History 

DNA was first found in 1869 by a physician by the name of  Friedrich Miescher.  He came across a DNA strain when he was looking at a microscopic substance as it resided in the nuclei of the cell.

 Moving thought out the next century more than a half of a dozen scientists would find more and more information about DNA and the structure.  It would not be intel the mid nineteenth century that two scientists would make the first correct model of a double helix DNA structure. Those scientists were  James Watson and Francis Crick.

 Fast forward a few years later Francis Crick would lay out the central dogma of molecular biology, which foretold the relationship between DNA, RNA, and proteins, and articulated the "adaptor hypothesis in 1957. 

            Today DNA information is more complex and is now used so more.  DNA can be found in every living thing and can be transferred to anything.  Because of that it has help so many lives find that closer that they have been looking for.  Law enforcement has been using this to help solve cases.  Those cases that they solve using DNA are homicides the find the killer, the used that DNA to solve sexual cases.  It not just the law that can benefit for the usage of DNA.  Anyone can benefit from this ground breaking information.  They now can use your DNA to tell you where you come from. I got my DNA tested and it told me that I mostly Native American and German.  That the ability of DNA now.