10 DNA Fun Facts To Make Your Day
How well do you know your body
Think of an IQ of about 1,000,000 and more. Our bodies are a masterpiece.
DNA is the information that codes everything in our bodies. It is currently highly studied by scientists. Below are 10 fun facts you probably didn’t know about your DNA.
1. A tomato has more genes than a human being (7000 more genes)
Wtf! Tomatoes are more complex than humans. Hell no! We are more complex. What do all those genes encode? Honestly, I don’t think I’m even close to figuring it out. If I’m right, you aren’t either.
Mmh! Or perhaps that’s the reason why tomatoes are such an important part of our daily intake. They are literally used in almost all meals.
2. You share 50% of your DNA with a banana
Bananas are sweet. Is this sweetness part of our DNA? If we share 50% of our DNA with a banana, does that mean we are 50% similar?
Bananas are plants and we are animals. They have plant cells and we have animal cells.
At the most fundamental level, we are similar. Cells of bananas contain DNA that gets transcribed to RNA and then translated to proteins. The cells in our bodies work in a…
