DNA: The book of you - Joe Hanson
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Your body is made of cells -- but how does a single cell know to become part of your nose, instead of your toes? The answer is in your body's instruction book: DNA. Joe Hanson compares DNA to a detailed manual for building a person out of cells -- with 46 chapters (chromosomes) and hundreds of thousands of pages covering every part of you.
Explain in your own words how some cells know to be muscle and some know to be bone.
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- Educator Joe Hanson
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- Narrator Joe Hanson
