probably this is one of the questions that most I have heard and although his relationship with the blog might be something distant, I assure you that you nothing further from reality, most of the diseases that we know have a component genetic. Which does not mean that gene therapy will be healing, today and to short and even medium-term, gene therapy is a utopia, I warn you. but DNA, first, to talk about what those acronyms mean? acid deoxyribonucleic, let alone that it will therefore be composed of a sugar, a group group of phosphate, nitrogen, etc. in the end, a complex structure, I can assure it, wasn’t until Crick and Watson when explained its structure with an appropriate model. But one perhaps ask an acid is used to store our information? not should he corrode it? quiet States that is not the case. These acids are structured as a double helix and are composed of four basic units or brick ”, A, C, T and g.
With those four compounds our cells are able to do wonders, are the letters of our small alphabetical genetic, but allow thousands and millions of combinations. But clarify something, the DNA is not unique in its kind, is a species of little brother ”, RNA, which we will discuss on another occasion and that which is much debated even (and discussed).
We clarify some things pass, all the DNA is not information, moreover, there is a large (and majority) part of the DNA that does not serve nothing ”, and put it in quotes, because it is true that not directly stored information, but this information trash ” every day you are new features such as the regulation of the useful parts. And this regulation is what partly makes a skin cell and another of the stomach are different–while having the same information. There are also genetic diseases associated both with the information trash ” strain between useful information, as well as problems of gene expression, which also cause illnesses.
But that talk another day ….
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