🔬 What is DNA?
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) is like a recipe book for life. It contains all the instructions needed to build and maintain an organism. Think of it as a very long instruction manual written in a 4-letter alphabet: A (Adenine), T (Thymine), G (Guanine), and C (Cytosine).
The order of these letters determines everything from your eye color to how your body fights diseases!
📋 Sequence Overview
📏 Size Comparison
This DNA sequence is 1,200 base pairs long. That's roughly the size of a bacterial gene cluster - imagine a paragraph in a book.
💡 Did You Know?
If you printed this DNA sequence with 60 letters per line, it would take 20 lines of text!
DNA is incredibly tiny: A single human cell contains about 2 meters of DNA, but it's packed so tightly that you'd need a microscope to see it. If you unraveled all the DNA in your body, it would stretch to the Sun and back over 300 times!
GC Content matters: The 39.8% GC content in this sequence tells us about its stability. Higher GC content (like this would have) means stronger bonds and more heat resistance!
📊 Composition Analysis
This pie chart shows the balance between GC pairs (strong bonds) and AT pairs (weak bonds) in the DNA
🧬 DNA Sequence (Color-Coded)
GCTAGCTACGATCGATCGTACGATCGTAGCTAGCTAGCTAGC
Total nucleotides: 42
A: 10 | T: 10 | G: 11 | C: 11
🤔 What Does This All Mean?
For Scientists: This DNA sequence can be used to identify genes, study mutations, or compare with other organisms.
For Everyone Else: Think of this as a tiny piece of the instruction manual that makes Caenorhabditis elegans unique. Scientists can "read" these instructions to understand how life works!
The 39.8% GC content tells us this DNA is easier to separate - which can be helpful for rapid gene expression!