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Cool Stuff About DNA Human DNA is about 99.9% identical to other humans, and • 99.1% to chimps • 90% to mice • 85% to Zebra fish • 50% to bananas • 21% to worms • 7% to bacteria Humans have 20-25,000 genes • • • • Yeast Drosophila C. elegans Flowering Plants 6,000 13,000 20,000 26,000 Humans have 46 chromosomes • • • • • Dove Gorilla Banana Dog Butterfly 16 48 66 78 380 More than 200 genes in the human genome have a bacterial ancestry. • On average, it takes ~4.5 gnes to express a specific trait • Today scientists have discovered over 1000 genes associated with smell • A single point mutation (substitution) causes sickle-cell anemia • Deletion of three nucleotides causes cystic fibrosis • Human DNA contains 3.2 billion base units called nucleotides (A, T, C and Gs) • If each nucleotide was represented by a letter on a textbook page, you could stack the pages 65 feet high • If each letter of newspaper print represented a nucleotide, it would take 16.75 miles of pages end to end to equal your DNA • The human genome was completed on April 14, 2003 • Many scientists hailed the completion as the greatest human achievement since reaching the moon • At a rate of 100 letters per minute, it would take you 57 years, without breaks, to read aloud the entire sequence • There are ~1.5 billion miles of DNA in your body • That equals 3000 round trips to the moon or 600 round trips to the sun • Cells contan 6-9 feet of DNA • In an average meal,you eat approximately 55,000,000 cells -or63,000 – 93,000 miles of DNA • DNA is the most efficient storage system known to man • It would take 30 gigabytes of hard drive space to save both sides of the sequence • Using the binomial language of modern computers, DNA could store 25 gigabytes of information per inch • In one cell, human DNA is 6 feet long • It took researchers 9 years in the 1980s to discover the gene for cystic fibrosis, • Nine days in 1999 to discover the gene for Parkinson’s disease, • 9 seconds in 2001 to discover the gene for Crohn’s disease • Today there are over 1000 genetic tests for humans X vs. Y • Women have more DNA than men XX vs. XY • Men have more working DNA • One X chromosome in mammals is essentially turned off • In forensics, a DNA profile (often called DNA fingerprinting) looks at 13 specific DNA markers • That equals a 1 in 10 trillion chance of another identical profile • The FBI database is called CODIS (COmbined DNA Index System) • 2-3% of the total DNA carries instructions to make protein, the rest was once referred to as “junk DNA” • Remember, we all save junk! • Today we know some “junk DNA” functions as non-coding RNAs or “microRNAs” that influence gene expression • All the DNA in your body weighs 7.5 grams, ~ 0.26 ounces • At today’s market prices,your DNA is worth $1.3 million a gram -ora total of $9.7 million • You can see your genetic future • 23andMe will analyze your DNA for $1000.00 You can have your own DNA portrait