Recipe on Making Genes

 Genes are like your moms and dads cooking book, the recipes were passed down to you. 

In these recipes, your parents are telling the little chefs, your cells, to put all the ingredients in a bowl to build the dish, which is like building proteins. The cells making these proteins is what makes a person unique, similar to the different ingredients in recipes. The recipes themselves are referred to as a gene which includes a superrrr long molecule deoxyribonucleic acid, also known as DNA. DNA is the basis of recipes themselves and tells cells and little chefs what to do. 

Genomes are your cookbook, it has all your recipes. You have two copies of your genome. Lucky you! One for everyday and one for if you lose the everyday one. Scientists are still confused on what our genes do and how they can change depending on their environment. Considering the basic ingredients for a recipe, like genes in a cell, the final cake can change depending on the environment you put it in, such as its temperature or mixing tool. Humans have 3.2 million genetics, which is a whole lot, and we only use a tiny fraction of it. Although humans only have a tiny fraction of the 3.2 billion genetics, it’s the most important thing about us. Without these genes, or even recipes, we wouldn’t be the people we are today. 

Genetics bring us closer to our family and ancestors, same way others cannot have the same family cookbook.




Comments

  1. Kate BestulSeptember 29, 2024 at 12:32 PM

    Hi Tara! I love your blog! I really like how you compared our genes to recipes that have been passed down through generations. It is a great way to teach people who don't know anything about biology about genes. I think this was very clever, nice job!

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2024 at 2:18 PM

    I love how you started off with a funny joke and wrote like you were teaching a kid about genes. I also really liked how you changed the meaning of passing down genes to a cookbook recipe. I thought that was really funny.

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  3. Eunice ZhangSeptember 29, 2024 at 5:30 PM

    Hey Tara! I love how you used a cookbook and other food related things as analogies for genomes and DNA. It's super relatable to many, and it really made genetics sound a lot simpler than it really is. I really loved reading this blog!

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