Personal Narrative: How DNA Changed The World

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It’s important to realize that each scientific break through is made possible by the work that came before it. It’s a lot like putting puzzle pieces together, collecting different important evidence until enough puzzle pieces result in another break through.

Fifty years ago two scientists announced to a lunch time crowd that they had discovered the secret to life. How DNA changed the world

To begin with scientists used to have no understanding of what caused distinct patterns of inheritance. They knew that a DNA molecule was simple. Then Watson-Crick discovered how the molecules could encode information in the copious quantities necessary to program a living cell. Thus showing that DNA records genetic information in the form of a four letter

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