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VOLUME 31:03 MARCH 2020

GENES & BASE PAIRS

DOUBLE HELIX STRUCTURE

WHAT IS GENETICS?

DNAINSIDE EVERY LIVING CELL IS

SOMETHING WE CALL DNA.THE LETTERS D.N.A. STAND FOR DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC

ACID. DNA CONTAINS INFORMATION THAT IS THE CAUSE FOR ALL THE DIFFERENT STRUCTURES IN ALL LIVING CELLS

IN THE WORLD.

PEOPLE HAVE A UNIQUE DNA CODE THAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR PHYSICAL TRAITS. BUILDERS USE A SET OF DRAWINGS CALLED BLUEPRINTS TO BUILD HOUSES. THE BLUEPRINTS TELL THEM WHERE PIPES, DOORS, WINDOWS, AND OUTLETS GO. IN FACT, WITHOUT A GOOD SET OF INSTRUCTIONS, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO BUILD COMPLICATED HOUSES AND BUILDINGS. DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR BODY IS MORE COMPLICATED THAN ANY HOUSE? AND DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS A SET OF BLUEPRINTS IN EACH OF YOUR CELLS THAT TELLS YOUR BODY HOW TO GROW? THOSE BLUEPRINTS ARE CONTAINED IN YOUR DNA.

WHY DO PEACH TREES GROW PEACHES? THE

DNA OF A PEACH TREE CONTAINS INFORMATION THAT IT USES TO

GROW PEACHES. THE DNA IN APPLE TREE CELLS IS DIFFERENT

THAN THE DNA IN PEACH TREES, SO APPLE TREES GROW APPLES.

WHY DO SOME PEOPLE HAVE BLOND HAIR AND OTHERS BROWN? WHY ARE

SOME PEOPLE SHORT AND OTHERS TALL? WHY DO SOME PEOPLE HAVE LIGHTER

SKIN AND OTHERS HAVE DARKER SKIN? ””

ARCHITECTS DRAW HOUSE BLUE-PRINTS. BUT WHO “DREW” THE

BLUEPRINTS FOR YOUR BODY?

FOR EVERY HOUSE IS BUILT BY SOMEONE, BUT HE WHO

BUILT ALL THINGS IS GOD. HEBREWS 3:4

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DNA

DNA MOLECULE

DNA HAS A DOUBLE HELIX STRUCTURE. THAT MEANS IT HAS TWO STRANDS THAT LINK TOGETHER. THEY LOOK MUCH LIKE A SPIRAL STAIRCASE. THIS STRUCTURE IS PERFECT FOR PACKING

LOTS OF INFORMATION IN A VERY SMALL SPACE.

A STRAND OF

HUMAN DNA

CONTAINS ABOUT

THREE BILLION

BASE PAIRS.

THAT NUMBER

LOOKS LIKE THIS:

3,000,000,000.

DNA CAN ACTUALLY CODE INFORMATION LIKE THE INFORMATION IN A LANGUAGE. IN FACT, RE-SEARCHERS HAVE LEARNED HOW TO STORE IN-FORMATION (SUCH AS WORDS IN BOOKS) IN STRANDS OF DNA. THEY ARE USING DNA LIKE A THUMB DRIVE THAT CAN COLLECT WORDS AND PICTURES. SOME SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT ALL PICTURES, WORDS, AND DATA IN THE WHOLE WORLD CAN BE STORED IN AN AMOUNT OF DNA THAT WOULD FIT IN ONE TABLESPOON!

BRILLIANT RESEARCHERS SPEND YEARS TRYING TO FIG-URE OUT HOW TO MAKE DATA STORAGE DEVICES SMALLER AND SMALLER. IT JUST MAKES SENSE THAT GOD’S DATA STORAGE DEVICE IS THE BEST ONE OF ALL!

EVERY CELL IN YOUR BODY CONTAINS A STRAND OF DNA. EACH STRAND IS

ABOUT SIX FEET LONG. HOW DOES IT FIT INSIDE EACH OF YOUR CELLS IF IT IS THAT LONG? GOD DESIGNED IT TO BE

ABLE TO COIL AND FOLD INTO A TINY SPACE. IMAGINE AN ELECTRICAL CORD

THAT IS 100 FEET LONG. THEN THINK ABOUT LOOPING IT SO THAT ALL 100 FEET FIT IN A CURLED UP ROLL ABOUT THE SIZE OF A TRASH CAN LID. THEN IMAGINE SEVERAL OF THOSE LOOPED CORDS STACKED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER. THAT GIVES YOU AN

IDEA OF HOW DNA COILS.

DNA IS A MOLECULE. THE “BACKBONE” IS MADE UP OF SUGAR PHOSPHATE. THE LITTLE THINGS THAT LOOK LIKE STAIRS ARE CALLED BASE PAIRS. THE BASE PAIRS STORE INFORMATION IN A CODE. THEY ARE COMBINATIONS OF FOUR COMPOUNDS: ADENINE, THYMINE, CYTOSINE, GUANINE. ADENINE ALWAYS CONNECTS TO THYMINE AND CYTOSINE ALWAYS CONNECTS TO GUANINE.

DNA CAN REPLICATE ITSELF, MAKING AN

EXACT COPY. THAT IS HOW ALL THE CELLS IN

YOUR BODY GOT THE SAME DNA INSIDE OF

THEM.

CLICK QR code to watch an animation of DNA Coding.

THE HUMAN BODY CONTAINS MORE THAN

30 TRILLION CELLS. IF YOU COULD TAKE THE DNA OUT OF EACH

CELL, STRETCH IT OUT, AND CONNECT IT IN A CHAIN, IT WOULD STRETCH MORE THAN 10

BILLION MILES. THAT MEANS IT COULD GO TO THE SUN AND BACK ABOUT 60 TIMES.

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True or False

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On A Separate Sheet of Paper WRITE THE HIDDEN PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE

FOUND IN THE WORDSEARCH BELOW.

Match, Find, and Circle

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TO PRINT OUT THIS CRYPTOGRAM

1. ___ DNA contains in-formation that is the cause for all the different structures in all living cells in the world.

2. ___ The DNA in apple tree cells is the same as DNA in peach tree cells.

3. ___ People have a unique DNA code that is respon-sible for their physical traits.

4. ___ The human body is far less complicated than a house.

5. ___ There are blueprints in the DNA of each of your cells that tells your body how to grow.

6. ___ DNA’s double helix structure looks a lot like a spiral staircase.

7. ___ Sadly, DNA cannot replicate itself.

8. ___ The language of DNA could never come about naturally by random, natural processes.

1. ___ Stands for DNA

2. ___ The Great Architect of the human body

3. ___ The book of the Bible in which this truth is found: “For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.”

4. ___ Builders use a set of these to build houses

5. ___ Two strands that link together in DNA

6. ___ The study of DNA

7. ___ A group of base pairs that contains instruc-tions to make one basic trait

8. ___ The book of the Bible in which this truth is found: “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”

9. ___ Makes up the “backbone” of the DNA molecule

A. BLUEPRINTSB. DOUBLE HELIX STRUCTUREC. PSALMSD. GOD

E. GENEF. DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACIDG. HEBREWSH. GENETICSI. SUGAR PHOSPHATE

THE STUDY OF DNA IS CALLED GENETICS.

A gene is a group of base pairs that con-tains instructions to make one basic trait. It can be compared to a word. The base pairs

can be compared to letters that make up the word. A gene can be made of 1,000

base pairs all the way up to two million base pairs. Just like some words are small, such

as ‟IT” and others are long, such as

“PACHYCEPHALOSAURUS.”

DNA IS COMPLEX. IT IS BRILLIANTLY DESIGNED. IT IS THE BEST STORAGE

DEVICE IN THE WORLD. THERE IS NO WAY IT COULD HAVE EVOLVED OVER MILLIONS OF YEARS OF ACCIDENTS AND RANDOM

PROCESSES.

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MATCH, FIND, AND CIRCLE: 1. F (Deoxyribonucleic Acid); 2. D (God); 3. G (Hebrews); 4. A (Blueprints); 5. B (Double Helix Structure); 6. H (Genetics); 7. E (Gene); 8. C (Psalms); 9. I (Sugar Phosphate). TRUE OR FALSE: 1-T; 2-F; 3-T; 4-F; 5-T; 6-T; 7-F; 8-T.

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IMAGINE TRYING TO GET INSTRUCTIONS FOR A WORKING, WALKING, TALKING ROBOT BY TAK-

ING BILLIONS OF LETTERS AND THROWING THEM ALL IN A PILE AND RANDOMLY PULLING THEM OUT. THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE. YOU WOULD NEED A VERY SMART PERSON TO

CAREFULLY WRITE OUT COMPLICATED IN-

STRUCTIONS TO GET A ROBOT.

IN THE SAME WAY, THE LANGUAGE OF DNA COULD NEVER COME ABOUT NATURALLY BY RANDOM, NATURAL PROCESSES. ONLY AN ALL-KNOWING, INTELLIGENT GOD COULD DESIGN DNA.

KING DAVID SAID TO GOD,

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wonderfully made;

marvelous are your

works, and that my

soul knows very well.”

PSALM 139:14

DNA IS ONE OF THE MOST MARVELOUS WORKS OF GOD’S CREATION.

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