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.
Though all humans start off the same way, give a brief explanation about what makes us all so different.
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- Educator Joe Hanson
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