DNA replication vid. MAN I LOVE THIS VIDEO!

[Brian37]

SCIENCE BITCHES!

I just about shit a brick at some of the facts in this video. Talk about production! Eat shit Trump!

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The Zipper, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)



The complementary pairs

In the winding stairs

Get separated at the speed

Of a jet engine



The fly has a name

Helicase separates them

One side copies

In a straight line



The opposite in reverse

Copies in a loop

Lagging behind

Dealing with Okazaki fragments



Separateing G from C

And A FROM T

Then replicating

At lightening speed



6 feet long

Each molecule

Tightly compact

In almost every cell



It coils itself

Around histones

Coils again

To become nucleosomes



The necleosomes

Go on to package

In a fiber

Called cromatine



It loops and coils

Even more

To the final product

We call chromosomes
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Also available at my poetry thread post #569 at Rational Responders here.http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/31771?page=11

[Brian37]

I am feeling like a kid now. I had such a hard time in school with science. But man I never thought I would understand the above. I also just pushed myself to understand 5 prime and 3 prime, nothing more than the carbon position on a sugar molecule. I also know now what a nucleotide is now too. It may not be a big deal for lots reading this, but I am seriously crying again because I never thought I would be able to understand this.

Your nucleotide is simply like one link in the chain in the DNA that links the wall to the center(base) . You have your phosphate, your sugar and your base. I am so fucking thrilled I understand it now. It seemed so complicated in school, and so easy now.

FUCK I think I just confused nuclaic acid with nucleotide. Nuclaic acid is one tooth, nucleotide is the base.

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The nuclaic acid is your phosphate, sugar, and one half of your base pair. Your nucleotide is half of the base pair.

[Brian37]

OK now I have one graphic calling the three parts a nuclaic acid. But this video calls the three parts a nucleotide? Which is it? What is the difference?

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DAMN IT Between the graphic I posted the picture, and this last video. It seems I was wrong. The nucleotide is the three parts, the phosphate, sugar, and base. If I am understanding the nuclaic acid is when the steps are connected?

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FUCK the spelled nucleic wrong. I spelled nulcaic. I need to trust the red line when I get it under a word.

[Brian37]

Outside my bad spelling, I am getting this. I am only getting stuck on the part and stages's names. I think I have it now still need to have someone confirm it.

Nucleic acid= entire strand.
Nucleotide=phosphate+sugar+base

[Mudhammam]

Damn DNA, you scary.

[Exian]

That's the way I understand it, Brian.

[Brian37]

That's the way I understand it, Brian.

I know why I was misspelling. I am so used to hearing an "a" instead of an "e". Sound like it is "new clay ick" but it is "nucleic".

So I am right

Nucleic acid is the entire strand.
Nucleotide are the three parts as individual steps on the ladder.

[Exian]

I say you're right, but I'm no expert on this. I'm interested and I've read a few books on it and I like to keep up to date, so take that for what it's worth.

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I will add that I've always looked at the bases as the rungs of the ladder and the phosphate and sugar as the sides, but I guess that probably splitting hairs.