Is it true that 8 hours of sleep a day is enough? What can you do if you don’t get enough sleep ? There are now several studies that can answer these questions. But we find the research into the influence of genes on your sleep particularly interesting. Genes influence your sleeping behavior Research has shown that […]
A metabolic disease is not caused by the lack of a gene, but by an increase in a piece of DNA. By researching DNA you can learn a lot about metabolism. How does our metabolism work? Everyone knows that eating gives us energy. When we eat we ingest substances. These substances must be processed or converted […]
A frequently asked question is: Why does a giraffe have a long neck? Does it really have to do with being able to eat the leaves of tall trees? And of course it’s interesting to us what the DNA of this long neck is like. Nice questions. Now read what we’ve already found out. The giraffe’s […]
Most children grow up with grandfathers and grandmothers: the sweet old people you like so much as a child, an easy and cheap babysitter when the parents have to work. This has not always been the case. Originally there were no grandfathers and grandmothers. People were ‘set’, that they died when they had passed the […]
Always wanted to do what scientists can do? Now you can with this trick. All you need are some kitchen supplies and a little saliva. Isolate DNA, how do you do that? How can you isolate DNA? Isolating DNA is also part of our DNA analysis process. Of course we use methods that are a […]
We’ve all heard of DNA, genes, and chromosomes. But how exactly does DNA form the building plan for a human being? And what kind of DNA test can I have done? Interesting questions where we can learn a lot about our hereditary material (DNA). We can do this by analyzing your DNA. With this we can […]
An unrolled DNA molecule has two strands twisted around each other. The double helix is a description of this shape. Today this shape is often used, as a symbol for DNA. The DNA double helix is dextrorotatory. If you look at it as if it were a slide, the strand would curve in a clockwise […]
The double helix is the world famous form of DNA. The two strands are made up of nucleotides. These are all loose links that are attached to each other and form a long chain. What does a nucleotide consist of? Each nucleotide of a DNA strand contains one of four bases: Adenine (A) Thymine (T) […]
Our DNA is composed in a certain way, we call this the genetic information. We can, for example, use this to derive the hereditary characteristics. Chromosomes and genes Traits are inherited through genes. We get the genetic information from our DNA. This comes from the chromosomes, which are a kind of strands. This is where […]
When we talk about a genotype, we are talking about the hereditary part of a trait. How this trait eventually manifests is called the phenotype . Below we explain genotype and phenotype . What is the genotype? With the exception of the sex chromosomes, you get a full set of all genes from each parent. This means […]
