DNA The “blueprint” of an organism.

Makes
you
YOU!

Instructs our
Proteins which
makes our traits!
 Every cell in your
In the nucleus (of Euk) body has the exact
same DNA!
DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid

It is a Nucleic Acid
Made of Nucleotides
Phosphate
Sugar
Base
DNA: Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Nucleotide:
Phosphate Sugar Base

The name of the sugar in DNA is:

Deoxyribose
DNA
Nucleotide:
Phosphate Sugar Base
Chargaff’s Rule:
The amount of guanine
4 Types of Bases is equal to cytosine and
the amount of adenine
is equal to thymine in a
Adenine DNA molecule

Thymine
A goes with T because….

Guanine G goes with C

Cytosine
 Covalent Bond

Strong bond that connects the

sugar to the phosphate

Hydrogen Bond

Weak bond that connects the

bases or nucleotides in the
middle
 Covalent Covalent

Hydrogen

Covalent Covalent
Hydrogen
-Sides made of
sugars and
phosphates

-”Rungs of
Ladder” made of
complementary
(pairing) bases
 We all have the same components in our
DNA. It’s the sequence or order of the bases
that makes us who we are.

Fredrick: ATGCAAAAGGG

Mary: GAGAGAGATTT

A horse: TATAGCGAGCA

Every person/organism
has a different sequence of
bases
The shape of DNA is a double helix
 Shape discovered by James
Watson and Francis Crick in 1953
Francis Crick Died July 28th 2004

Watson is in his 90’s

today
Potato/Tomato?
Chromatin: Loose stringy DNA. This is
how DNA spends most of the time in the
nucleus. Basically the DNA is
all loose and mixed
up like a big ball of
string

Chromosome: Individual tightly

wound pieces of DNA
Happens before the cell divides
 Chromatin

Chromosomes

Humans have 46 Nucleus

Chromosomes!
 Gene
A part of DNA that codes
for a trait
 Nucleotides

46 DNA – Double
Chromosomes Helix

Chromatin
Chromosomes
 Nucleotides

Its all
DNA !!!!!
46
Chromosomes
DNA – Double
Helix

Chromatin
Chromosomes