This Is How Your DNA Made You
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Published 2020-05-28
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Our bodies are made up of organ systems, which are collections of organs. Our organs are made of tissues, and our tissues are made of cells, and those cells are made up of nonliving things like water, lipids, and proteins. And each of our cells make proteins that do different jobs in our body.
The pigment that makes your eye color is a protein. The keratin that builds your hair is a protein. But you also need to build proteins for a normal physiology, so you have instructions for proteins like antibodies and enzymes in your genes as well.
And we have approximately 25,000 genes in our bodies. Each of your genes holds the genetic instructions that tell a cell how to make a specific protein for a specific purpose, and in this episode of Human we find out exactly how that process works.
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Read More:
Is eye color determined by genetics?
ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/traits/eyecolor
“Eye color is determined by variations in a person’s genes. Most of the genes associated with eye color are involved in the production, transport, or storage of a pigment called melanin. Eye color is directly related to the amount and quality of melanin in the front layers of the iris.”
Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Fact Sheet
www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Deoxyrib…
“Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a molecule that contains the biological instructions that make each species unique. DNA, along with the instructions it contains, is passed from adult organisms to their offspring during reproduction.”
Ribosomes, Transcription, and Translation
www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/ribosomes-transc…
“The genetic information stored in DNA is a living archive of instructions that cells use to accomplish the functions of life. Inside each cell, catalysts seek out the appropriate information from this archive and use it to build new proteins — proteins that make up the structures of the cell, run the biochemical reactions in the cell, and are sometimes manufactured for export.”
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All Comments (21)
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Hi Seekers, thanks for watching! For more Human, check out our playlist here: bit.ly/HUMANplaylist
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Isn't it amazing ? Aren't we ourselves amazing ?
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5' Thymine - Adenine Thymine - Adenine Adenine - Thymine Guanine - Cytosine Guanine - Cytosine Guanine - Cytosine 3' This is the sequence for telomeres.
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Correction: I am a delicious dessert!
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I made a DNA joke in my biology class but no one laughed. Guess my thymine was off.
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Finally a detail explanation of the process that is clear and concise. :-)
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Not gonna lie, seeker thumbnails r fire🔥
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At 5:00 5' TTAGGG 3' is a telomeric repeat sequence found in mammals bound by proteins called shelterins
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I'm a Genetics Masters student and I'm still intrigued by the way Patrick explains the basics of genetics. Totally love this new series Humans. Can't wait for more episodes.!!🙌
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Hey SEEKER! I want you people in my college 😭😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🙏 you people explain these concepts so well. I love you💝
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I am so glad other people study this and understand it. I was lost somewhere around two minutes in. Very happy to know that others are on top of it. This frees me to concentrate on being a musician for a living. I wonder if my DNA consists of a lousy ability to understand DNA, but then also a great ability to play a 3 over 4 polyrhythm in a minor Blues scale, and modulate one half note up without missing a beat.
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5'TTAGGG3' is TELOMERE
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This is the best explanation of DNA that I’ve come across on YouTube and I’ve watched many tutorials and am still struggling to grasp the entire concept so thanks for excellent teaching skills!
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This channels videos are one of life's pleasures.
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So incredible. Thanks so much!
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I already knew most of this through school but it's still astonishing how it all works in the background with no "brain" organising it. The CRISPR machine blows my mind.
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Awesome analogy + animation
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The creme brulee analogy seems broken. Creme brulee doesn't make itself. Also, this perpetuates the myth that genes neatly describe a set of instructions that can be understood like a recipe (i.e. this is the gene for x kind of thinking). For an example, fur color and disposition seem to be linked traits in foxes. The protein that controls fur color also affects brain structure. This is not a result that would be at all predicted by the recipe analogy. I don't know that our culture currently possesses an easily digestible analogy that neatly captures complex self-organizing systems in which a bunch of tiny rules interact in very complex ways for a variety of unpredictable and surprising results. But the description of transcription is nifty. One other really nifty thing to know about ribosomes is that they are made of RNA and protein, not just proteins like most of our molecular machinery. It suggests an abiogenesis in which RNA played a significant role, since ribosomes are so fundamental and universal.
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"proteins give your eyes their color" Me: steaming inside "NOT BLUE I'M SPECIAL"
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I get lost with all the abstract explanations and terms and how they relate to each other. I will never be a medical professional or scientist. Still , I have always tried my best to get a basic understanding of the universe around me. I have always been fascinated with things I know nothing (or exceedingly little) about. Your videos touch on these basic/complex concepts and feed my curiosity to keep looking for more. Thank you !
