Intro to DNA

DNA’s superpower is producing fractal globules, or almost infinite repeating geometries between one dimension and all three, that never become knots.

To understand, imagine DNA as a book, All About You! It lists everything distinct about you. If you read the same DNA backwards, it contains a massive index of all the components your body and brain need in order to make those things described in the little book. When you turn it upside down or flip it over, DNA and RNA form other manuals that detail how and when to make machines and motors, pumps, muscles, hair, teeth, saliva, their maintenance cycles, power and speed data. It also specifies how to operate the machines, who to call for service, and how often to schedule maintenance and deliveries.

For decades, scientists found unexpected bits of seemingly random (or “junk”) DNA and RNA that turn out to line up perfectly “across and through the pages.” In other words, DNA directs your entire infancy, decides how you will grow, what you will become in adulthood, and what you face in old age. Sometimes there are flaws, but remarkably few considering how much DNA does, and absolutely must do.

If you have a dreadful flu as I do right now, your body immediately responds and reports. In effect, DNA multi-processes significant changes to the most routine behaviors in my body. DNA ordered new machinery to be built, sent warriors and filled my blood with extra iron, sugar, and oxygen. It began manufacturing that also quickly raised my temperature to 103°F for a while as it raised an army, raced to war, and prevented death. DNA also knocks the body out with fatigue and weakness, like war rations after an enemy bombing raid. DNA controls the autoimmune system. It declared Martial Law. It causes stomach, ear, nose and throat problems because those are where you can see and feel the results of war.

Comparing DNA to computers and code lets you imagine some of this, but we have no ideas how to make such computers or write such code. And I finally stuck a picture in a blog to illustrate something.

Now I’m going to bed.