I'm happy to be sharing some of my Biology knowledge with you, but delivered in a very non-technical way. I majored in Biology for 5 years and also had many months of hands on experience with genetic engineering during a work placement opportunity. One of the most fascinating topics that we covered in our classes was about DNA, the molecule of life. Whilst we spent MANY weeks learning about the theory of what DNA actually is and what it does, it was always clear to me that we were dealing with a miraculous molecule that was very poorly understood. When I was majoring, the scientific world still called 99% of the DNA in our bodies as junk, because they didn't understand what it did. What was clear was that whatever it did, nobody even really understood how it came to be!
Life and Evolution is not the result of random mutations and natural selection!
One of my very first dissertations in University was titled 'Evolution'. This essay was one that I set out on with an open mind. I did my research about genetics and studied the Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection By Mr Charles Darwin, and put it all together in a very interesting essay. What surprised me very much was what I had to conclude after following the scientific facts. Before I state my conclusion I would like to mention that I received an A+ with distinction from my head of department and had the highest grade in the entire year. I was really surprised about by top grade, since the conclusion of my dissertation didn't really fit the general accepted rhetoric of the scientific establishment. What I was forced to conclude from my research was that whilst Darwin's Theory of Evolution could account for many of the more subtle refinements we see in all the lifeforms of this world, it could not account for the initial creation of it in the first place, or the evolution of complex organs such as the eye that has no selective pressure to encourage its evolution until it was already formed. Don't worry about the details here, the main point is that DNA shows pre-planning, intelligent design, and has all the hallmarks of an actual code that has been created. They do call DNA the genetic code, and once you understand it a bit, you will also come to see that DNA is indeed a very smart genetic program that is incredibly complex and defines life as we know it on planet Earth. Science now accepts that DNA shows intelligent design, and whilst they don't use the term God or Higher Power thay have had to conceed that there is too much that remains unexpainable by any theory! So what I am saying is that DNA is so amazing that it alone is virutally proof of God, or a higher and more intelligent power.
With that said, I would like to share with you a little bit about DNA, what it is, and what it does for us.. and even how in the future scientists could use DNA as the ultimate storage system. Did you know, for example that in the year 2009, you could fit ALL the world's computer and Internet data into 1 gram of DNA! Or to put another way, 1 gram of DNA can store 3.4×1021 bits (0.36 zettabytes)!
What is DNA?
DNA stands for DeoxyriboNucleic Acid. It is a double helix spiral that is very small and very long! DNA packs in a phenomenal amount of data into an impossibly small amount of space. If you extract all the DNA from one cell of our bodies, that DNA would be about 6 feet long. There is SO MUCH DNA in our entire bodies that if we took the DNA from all our cells it would stretch out for a distance of around 10 billion miles! Thats about the distance of the earth from the sun 100 times over. Maybe we should take a moment to let that sink in. Can you even comprehend it!? I can't! In order to pack this much data into our cells the DNA is coiled, super coiled and somehow conpacted 100 times more, to be able to fit it into the very nucleus of a cell. Let me just say that scientists have NO idea how this is achieved. They can account for around only 10% of the size reduction! It is part of the magic of life! One long packaged string of DNA is called a chromosome and we have 23 pairs of them. A chromosome is the largest single unit of DNA, and a base pair is the smallest. There are around 3 billion bases pairs in one chromosome!
Even though DNA is incredibly complex, it is also made up of very simple elements. In fact the entire genetic code is based on 4 different chemicals called Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Cytosine (C), and Thymine (T). It doesn't matter what these look like. All you need to know is that the genetic alphabet has only only four letters, called Bases. With such a limited alphabet, it is quite astonishing that it is able to be decoded into the vast array of life that we have today. It is possible because it is a code, quite literally. Our body is made up of cells and each cell has its own copy of our DNA. Each of our cells uses this copy to determine what to do, what to make, and when to make it. It is a bit like a biological blockchain! Our DNA is decentralized throughout our entire body, and is therefore a very safe way to keep the code of life safe.
To understand the fundamentals of DNA you just need to know one more thing! Each element (A,G,T or C) will pair naturally with one other element. 'A' will only and always pair with 'T' and 'G' with 'C'. This simple chemical reaction results in the double helix, whereby we have one strand of DNA that is the actual template and code for life. That strand is bound to a complementary strand that can be seen as a kind of mirror copy of DNA. These two strands together form the double helix spiral that we know DNA to be today!
DNA, The Greatest Factory on Earth
The cells of our body can be likened to the most complex and efficient manufacturing plant ever imagined. Life has evolved so that our bodies are somehow able to take a ridiculously complex code and use that to create and maintain life. The manufacturing of things that our bodies need is one of the big roles of DNA and is called Protein Synthesis. If you studied the mechanics and detail of how the body manages to decode, transcribe, and create proteins and enzymes that we need to live you would probably be very amazed. The process is one that involves 1000's of different collaborative cellular activities that happen in perfect synchronicity and with nearly 100% accuracy. Protein synthesis is too hard to explain in a post, suffice is to say that it is enough to make me aware that a higher power simply had to be involved in this miracle of life. To say that these processes happen as a result of random mutations, or step by step changes simply ignores the profanity of what is actually happening in every cell of our bodies all of the time. This is intelligence beyond anything that even our greatest engineers could ever dream of!DNA Replicates itself and creates its own variations of itself!
When we create new life from our own, it is our DNA that matters most! The way in which nature allows us to combine our parental DNA and form new and varied children is another miracle of life! Have you ever wondered why two people almost never have the same looking children?! This is because our cells make sure of this in a process called meiosis. One thing that is very good for life is to have a varied genome. If we all have different weaknesses and strengths, then if something happens that challenges us, such as a certain bug or a climate change, some of us will likely be better able to survive than others due to this natural variation. It is actually key to our survival and something that happens in another process that is so amazing that it is a wonder it even works at all. All that is needed for new life to form is half a copy of DNA from our mothet and father, and one cell from the mother that contains everything that is needed for life to form. At this point I have to ask, is it our DNA that is alive or is it us!? Maybe we are our DNA?!
What controls the DNA? How does DNA know what to do?
These questions are very good ones and are ones that even the best scientists only have a lose handle on. What we do know is that there are different parts of DNA. Some parts of our DNA code for specific proteins and building blocks of life and they are called our genes. A gene is a simple unit of DNA that codes for a long string of amino acids. To give you a sense of scale, one gene or protein would on average be coded by 27,000 Bases (or 27,000 A,T,C or G's) . All the proteins in our body are made up of around 20 amino acids.. Our bodies can make 11 of them (non essential amino acids) and the other 9 we need to eat in our diet. Therefore the genes make up a series of amino acids that when formed into a complex molecule by the body end up becoming a functional protein. Our genes make up around 1% of all our DNA, and so there is a LOT more going on than just coding for material things. DNA also controls itself, sometimes in response to signals or stimuli, but it is also independent and just gets on and does its thing. It is estimated that around 8% of our DNA is regulatory and involved in deciding when to produce some proteins and how much and for how long. The body self regulates some of these signals by the use of hormones and other chemicals that the body produces. It is good to understand that around 90% of DNA is totally not understood. It is fair to say that our DNA seems to hold all the recorded history of life up until this point within it.. again, just like the blockchain does! This explains why we share anywhere from 94-99% of our DNA with chimps, and why we are 75% identical to a mouse and 36% identical to a fruit fly. We have within every cell of our bodies a history and map of life and not just our own!
DNA is totally incredible and almost out of the reach of our understanding! With DNA it is possible to create almost anything and everything that we see in the world today. When DNA wants to, it will take a caterpillar and turn it into a butterfly. The same could be said for us humans! If we learned to control our DNA and switch things on that were dormant, we could also literally grown wings overnight and fly away. Nothing is impossible once we truly understand our DNA and how it works. Whilst we have come a long way in the past 50 years on this, we are still a very long way away from being able to really understand and potentially harness the power of DNA. The biggest collaborative project we have initiated to do this was the Human Genome Project. This project very simply set our to provide an accurate sequence of the 3 billion base pairs of the human genome, and as a result to discover the 20,000 or 25,000 genes that make up a part of that. This project completed in 2003, and is used today to help to understand and aid medical research and more. It was a very small step in the direction of really understanding life and how our DNA works.
The Future and Potential For DNA and Genetic Engineering
Whilst I have a great respect for science I am also quite weary of the implications of modern science in the field of genetics. The very fact that the best word scientists have to describe 90% of our DNA as is Junk says it all to me! We have the potential to change and alter ourselves beyond anything that has preceded us. In the future we will have the ability to essentially create genetic 3d printers that can become any kind of object of life form by simple programming and creating a string of DNA. Perhaps that is how we came to be, perhaps that is our destiny, or perhaps that will be our great downfall. Who can say what we were meant to be, or where evolution will take us. What I can say is that whilst we live in a survival of the fittest, capitalist based world that is built on control and manipulation, the idea of genetics engineering is quite a scary one. Perhaps one day we will learn ways to use this technology in good ways that are in harmony with our own human nature. In the meantime, I left the laboratory and this crazy and amazing field of Genetics far behind!
I hope you have found this little Biology lesson interesting and that you have learned something new here. Please let me know in the comments if you would like to know more details on anything I have spoken about, such as how exactly the body manages to turn a code into a product! Else please feel free to ask anything else you might want to understand better about life, and nature.
SOURCES:
https://www.thoughtco.com/interesting-dna-facts-608188
http://www.kickassfacts.com/25-kickass-and-interesting-facts-about-dna
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/top10facts/394517/Top-10-facts-about-DNA
https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/what-is-dna
https://holykaw.alltop.com/17-interesting-facts-about-dna
https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/weird-but-true-facts-about-dna
https://dnatesting.com/dna-facts-that-just-may-shock-you/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_%28data%29
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I LOVE this article!
This is one of the best science articles I have read on here. I really love your outlook and explanation. It is both science and spiritual!
I agree with so much of what you said how its kinda pathetic that they would call 90% of DNA junk... YEA RIGHT! hahahahahaha
What I am most truly blown away by though is how you explained that all of creation is within DNA......
So theoretically we could grow wings like a butterfly if we could activate that part of the dna.....
Wow now thats something to ponder for both spiritualists and scientists alike!
So what do you think about the possibility that humans are just created by aliens and the DNA is just the program they used to create the organism?
Great post brother!
THANK you Quinn! what a stunning comment! humbled when you say what you just said!
I was thinking to mention about where we came from, and then decided to leave it as it's such a kind of conspiracy theme that i try to stay away from. BUT since you are asking, i think it's most likely is that Aliens hybridised DNA from our ape like ancestors and combined it with some E.T. DNA to create us for their own agendas.. We are now breaking out of this genetic programming and may learn to undo some of the limitations that were put on us. We are starting to exceed our programming! ;-)
There is plenty of evidence to show a sudden and unexplainable leap in our evolution, and I personally believe in Extraterrestrials from my own experiences and thoughts on the matter.. so its just a small step for me to accept that its possible we were created by other beings and maybe not even under the best of circumstances!
Yes its difficult for many to ponder let alone comprehend. All the more important it is to explore and discuss these things.
As I said I really found this post valuable and very much enjoyed it. Much more so than 99% of posts.
I agree it seems logical that human was created by ET. May be conspiracy now but will become history one day. It is always ones who are able to live on the edge and question that innovate new levels of being.
I have been experimenting much with conscious programing including the influence on DNA it self.
oh yeah.. now were talking! conscious DNA Programming... we go to new heights of metaphysics and string theory soon!
i wrote another far out post today.. if u like this maybe it may tickle your fancy! The rabbit hole definately gets deeper with this one! ;-)
Ok will check it out ASAP!
Blessings~*~
and yes, exactly really, DNA is the programming language someone used to create us! It is a code, just like any other code we have made ..
Exactly~
The matrix is not so Sci-Fi after all...
The red pill....
The Rabbit hole......
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mmmm, yup i swallowed that pill the day i met drunvalo!
∞§∞Bless it be∞§∞
This is very informative and well-written! :)
Friendly tip: May I suggest that you name your sources to higher your post's credibility levels? It might help you gain even more popularity.
thanks for the tip Ruth.. actually i often do.. i didnt feel i needed to this time as everything i said is not in any dispute and is general knowledge. ... but yes good idea! ill edit and add a few sources
I know that, we're taught about this at school. But since it's a really good post why not be able to promote it in other science groups? Trust me, the references will help ;)
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thank you RUth.. very helpful! i have added my sources now!
ill check out that SteemStem tag!
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This is an absolutely awesome blog! I love it so much I want to print a copy out to keep and use as a teaching reference. Thank you so much @eco-alex for taking so much time and effort to put this together and post it for us.
@deaconlee thank you for this wonderful comment! It really inspires me to keep writing on Biology! This was the first post i wrote on it and so far i've had more encouragement than anything else i wrote.
Im planning to write about the Cell Next.. there is SO much to say about it and few people even know what a cell is!
That's great, I will be looking forward to it.
Amazing stuff @eco-alex! Nice little DNA lesson here! I love the comparison of DNA to the blockchain, I'd never thought it of it like that, and to me, it just further proves that everything is connected :D
I used to have a more Science background until I decided Maths is more for me, and the more I learnt about it back then, the more I believed science and spirituality are mutually inclusive, and I think you articulated that quite well here.
Genetics has always been an interesting subject to me, I am surrounded by mixed raced people (myself included) and it always astonishes me how significantly different, the features of some mixed raced siblings can be. Really hard to portray this with words, but I hope you know what I mean. Would love to see you post on this if you have any insight!
One last thing on a related note! If you've never seen any Symphony of Science videos, this is one of my favourites called "We are all Connected":
Thanks for your post :)
thanks redrica.. yes the blockchain analogy only came as i wrote the post.. very interesting comparrison..
watching your movie now, thanks for sharing!!
Hope you enjoyed the song :)
It was beautiful!
Great post @eco-alex ! Glad to have you here in the community :D I've been wondering sometime of why we don't start using DNA as the primary storage for computer and internet data. Especially now when there is so much talk about if we can handle the quantum computer development because there is not to much space to store that date.. Don't you think that should be a possibility, I mean, to store it in DNA?
yup absolutely.. DNA is the perfect data storage.. i think its just a matter of time.. Not only is DNA amazing as storing information safely, it can also replicate itself for backups and even verify itself.. its totally perfect.. nothing else really comes close right now as a real viable option.. These developments will take time though, perhaps 100 years or more!
Oh damn it 100 years more to go... Oh well, hopefully we might be still alive he he!
at least in a different body maybe ;-)
Great article, @eco-alex. Really interesting and fascinating. After reading the first couple of lines during a small break, I must admit, that I need a silent undisturbed moment to resume reading. Awesome topic to dive in. Upvoted and resteemed. Cheers.
thanks arrkiin! Yes this can be a minefield of complex information.. so i tried hard to keep it simple whilst still giving some good information ! glad you liked it .. and THANKS for the resteeem! ;-)
Amazing article! I just found a little mistake I think. It should be 3.4^1021 instead of 3.4×1021, right?
Resteemed
well spotted! im fixing that typo yes quite a difference! THANK U mkt
You're welcome! Btw... CRISPR would be a natural follow up article. What do you think? :)
well,, to be honest.. i dont know much about CRISPR! sounds like you know about it though! ;) your turn!!
I just shared some news about it in the past but I don't feel confident enough to write an comprehensive article about it. But we'll see... maybe I'll dig into it some more. :D
As a guy doing his research in genomics, this was interesting to read :)! Followed and Resteemed.
happy to hear this, thanks for your feedback @hmushtaq .. I also try to provide a perspective that you don't really get in the classroom..
thanks for the resteem too! ;-)
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Great article and information!
I've have wondered about this 90% 'junk DNA' too and I just know it's not junk and is actually a way to access our full Pure & Divine Creation Power. The concept of scientists 'messing' with DNA is quite scary to me too and I do feel that those of wishing good to be created need to get the answers to how to use our DNA for Pure Creation before the scientists start using this as a form of manipulation.
I've recently been really feeling that the pineal gland and 3rd eye are a huge part of Pure Creation, so any ideas on these are linked or could be used together?
Thanks for your post. :)
yes... i believe DNA holds knowledge.. our ancient and ancestral knowledge.. when we learn to tap our DNA knowledge we can access great things!
Yes indeed! and I'm working on this, can feel the power in it!
The DNA is a cosmic blackbox, it contains all the knowledge that exists and embedded in the fabric of the Universe!
Thanks, yes I'm sure that is true, which is why I'd love to know how to really access and use the hidden 90% 'junk DNA', because it's not junk, it's Pure Creation being hidden from us! So any ideas on that most welcome!
sure there is no junk DNA, yes its hidden and that is why we can't trust science anymore.
I read that Light encodes/encrypts the data into the DNA. And that makes sense. Light generates Life. I tackle such topic in my blog, which is highly critical of transhumanism.
I've just been reading and watching the video clips in your post
"Reality Is Realistic: The 'Intelligent Design' Is Mathematically Provable. Game Over!?"
Again more very interesting information. I work through feelings, which is totally unscientific, and has no scientific validity, but is truly amazing!
It feels to me like we have been 'tuned out' of 432 frequencies and this is key to the hidden DNA and accessing our Pure creation power.
I channel Pure Love, Light and high frequencies, you can check it on my blog, dtube or You Tube, it's very powerful and I get amazing results, but I've felt like something has been missing, so this could be it.
Thanks for your posts and reply.
Amazing post Alex ! Did you know that if we expand a single DNA strand it can go to the moon and back ;) ?
In the same line and nothing to do with this article, the amount of sperm cells in one ejaculation is equal to the population of the United States :-)
thanks for reminding me about that! i wonder how many miles the DNA of all that semen would go! That would be a great quiz.. although god only knows how i'll figure out the answer. doesn't bare thinking about..
lol.. actually thats not quite right! one strand will expand around 6 feet.. but ALL the DNA in our one body will go to the sun and back 100 times!
Great post, very clear explanation and I like the link to the blockchain...
Only thing that bothered me: " Science now accepts that DNA shows intelligent design, and whilst they don't use the term God or Higher Power thay have had to conceed that there is too much that remains unexpainable by any theory! So what I am saying is that DNA is so amazing that it alone is virutally proof of God, or a higher and more intelligent power";
I don't think that because something is beyond our understanding now it needs be linked to any religious or god-ly topic. It's science, it's something we don't understand yet, no more.
Waiting for more articles though! :)
Fair point! I used the word god out of my own opinion. Science calls it intelligent design but can't say what that intelligence is..
The reason for this link isn't due to lack of understanding as much as the obvious realisation to a scientist that DNA is an intelligently made and written code! To anyone who writes code this is quite obvious! It is a very complex issue but please do Google intelligent design theory to understand more
Thanks for answering, intelligent design theory is promoted by the Discovery Institute... christian convervative organisation I can't really trust. I still think all of this will be understood in a near future. Maybe it isn't the evolution theory, but there is always an explanation.
Cheers!
Mathematics is the evidence of the intelligent design... everything is math... math is thus spiritual :) Grasping this will lead to the merging of science and spirituality
Well, that was quite the biology refresher with a different perspective. I was a biology major in high school. I didn't continue, but remained fascinated by it. So many of my friends over the years have been scientists. What makes DNA research scary is who ends up controlling the knowledge and future related technologies. Is it a Pandora's Box better left closed....or not?
oh wow i had No idea you majored in Bio! It was the only subject i was ever interested in at school..
DNA research is more than scary! Having actually done it, i can tell you that its not that difficult at all to sequence DNA to your own code using a PCR machine.. We were doing that 20 years ago! I cant even imagine what is going on in some Labs around the world.. Some serious new age Frankenstein stuff no doubt!
The knowledge is already out there.. so there isnt really any controlling it as such.. just random people doing weird shit with it..
Great article I will add it to my page ..))
Thanks for this brilliant article. I was fascinated about this subject in secondary school. I even decided to study biology but I dropped out after a year. The idea that one cell becomes part of a hand and another cell, but exactly the same, becomes part of your eye is amazing.
thank you! i dont hear the word brilliant very often.. its a great word and gratefully received!
this whole topic is mindblowing to me!!
Absolutely fascinating!! Thanks for sharing. Upvoting and resteeming. :)
Oh thank you!nreally appreciate your feedback! And big thanks for resteeming!
You are most welcome!
I like the way you think!
Still so much things to discover in life...
These things have always interested me!
I'm pretty sure aliens exist, maybe they are our creators...
But if that is the case, how were they created?
I'll make sure to follow you, please keep writing amazing posts like this!👍
Thank you for your great encouragement! The ultimate question of where everything came from is probably a post on its own!!
Alien or not, the God equation still is solid as a rock... knowledge allow us only to reproduce life, we cannot be gods but we can think we could... how foolish!
Everything point to this knowledge being extraterrestrial. I have several blogs about it... talking about the (invisible) alien invasion that is transhumanism
mMm.. wow,, yes very deep and i agree! im definately an alien! ;-)
Intriguingly, people love sci-fi but when told that it is happening now, they smile
The disclosure movement has gone quite far already... look for the blockbuster on YT, Sirius, Dr Greer isnt a fav of mine (there is a better) but that's an excellent start.
ps: I dont recommend to use the DNA as hard drive as long as we cannot have peace on earth.... too many hackers and cyber attacks, they could/will hijack the mind and the body in the blink of an eye. People have also to mature up and cease to see technology as a toy.
thanks for your comment! yes i know the disclosure movement since a long time.. very interesting stuff!
I hear your warning too.. we definately need more changes before we're ready as a culture to embrace certain new developments..
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oh wow.. thanks so much .. very kind!!!
yet there's still a community believing memories are stored in the brain... ha.
and so few have perhaps yet clued into another clue right there in front of our noses in the language, "genetic code."
takes time to put the pieces together... :-)
i wonder!.. that is a deep question where our memories are stored~ i think everywhere would be a fair answer.. i don't think consciousness is limited to the body..
and yes, somehow DNA is involved too in storing some kind of memories..
and behaviours..
very complex stuff!!
thanks rok!
Your messages is kind of conflicted here.... I have the same concerns and blog about it a lot, scientism means following a paycheck and therefore scientists are one of the major threats to mankind. Until is not fixed we should NOT trust anybody claiming to use this DNA technology for a great good...
As my blog demonstrates I am highly critical of transhumanism
fair enough!
i have respect for science, i mean the process and what it has achieved till date.
but i am also weary of where it MAY head unless our systems change!
I support scientists who oppose academia, here is why:
examples abound... I expose them all as fast as I can, the list is very long
The Not So Mysterious Resurrection Of The Electric Car (jaw dropping)
https://steemit.com/society/@earthcustodians/the-monetary-paradox-the-not-so-mysterious-resurection-of-the-electric-car
DNA is the intelligent of all ! Nice post sir !
Wow I wonder what else we are doing this with?
Do you watch Ancient Aliens? This is great!
i never heard of it! what to do i live on the side of a mountain in India ;-) ILl check it out though if you reccomend it.. im guessing it's internetable!
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