How DNA Become My Traits
How did the info in my DNA become my traits? This is a question that has been asked by many over the course of history.To answer this question we need to answer three essential questions, the first, how did we get our DNA, how did we go form one cell to trillions, and how did DNA become our traits. There is one essential driver to all of this, DNA, to understand DNA, we need to know what DNA is. DNA is two strands that contain genetic information in four bases, adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine. DNA is located in the cell nucleus and is found in all multi- cell organisms. To begin with, how did the DNA become and get in our bodies. It all starts with the sperm and the egg, gametes. A gamete is a reproductive cell for a male or female.
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The cells prepares to divide by growing in size and prepares for DNA synthesis, when it enters the cell cycle. The cell cycle contains 5 phases, growing in size and preparing for DNA synthesis is the in the G phase and the G1 phase, next the cells then goes onto the S phase, this is where the DNA is replicated. Between the G1 and S phase is a check point where the cell cycle checks if the cell is proper to be divided. After the DNA is copied, the DNA copy and the cell goes through another checkpoint. If the cell does not pass through the checkpoint successfully the cell cycle will do one of the two, either try to repair the error in the cell or tell the cell to do apoptosis, the killing or destruction of the cell to prevent the cell from creating any other errors or messed up cells. The cell then move through the rest of the cell cycle and goes through the G2 phase where the cell prepares for mitosis. Mitosis is the process of division of cells in the cell cycle known as the M phase, this is how the cells in our body divides and grow. As the cell continues through the cell cycle to the M phase, here the cells goes through the stages of Mitosis and as the result it produces two diploid cells. Not every cell goes through Mitosis immediately, the cells need to either be told to prepare for division or it senses the cell next to it is missing and needs to divide to
The cells prepares to divide by growing in size and prepares for DNA synthesis, when it enters the cell cycle. The cell cycle contains 5 phases, growing in size and preparing for DNA synthesis is the in the G phase and the G1 phase, next the cells then goes onto the S phase, this is where the DNA is replicated. Between the G1 and S phase is a check point where the cell cycle checks if the cell is proper to be divided. After the DNA is copied, the DNA copy and the cell goes through another checkpoint. If the cell does not pass through the checkpoint successfully the cell cycle will do one of the two, either try to repair the error in the cell or tell the cell to do apoptosis, the killing or destruction of the cell to prevent the cell from creating any other errors or messed up cells. The cell then move through the rest of the cell cycle and goes through the G2 phase where the cell prepares for mitosis. Mitosis is the process of division of cells in the cell cycle known as the M phase, this is how the cells in our body divides and grow. As the cell continues through the cell cycle to the M phase, here the cells goes through the stages of Mitosis and as the result it produces two diploid cells. Not every cell goes through Mitosis immediately, the cells need to either be told to prepare for division or it senses the cell next to it is missing and needs to divide to