Amazing video showing DNA being made.

[Bedeekin]

I recently posted this on another thread... but felt it needed a post of its own.

It shows some new amazing accurate computer imagery of DNA being created and how Chromosomes do their thing.

Please watch and be amazed at your body.

http://www.ted.com/talks/drew_berry_animations_of_unseeable_biology.html

[Stillwater]

lol... 8:15...

I wonder if that is just an artist's interpretation, or the courier enzymes really do have robotic legs... if so, I am astounded.

And I never realzed DNA polymerase works forwards on one side and backward on the other... I always pictured it as a zipper with new base pairs floating in at either side; in fact I think that is how my biology text illustrated it, haha.

[Bedeekin]

That is apparently an accurate portrayal of the molecules and how they interact. They're like little creatures.. so cool.

That's the problem with learning stuff at school... it'll be outdated by the time you leave.

The atom is the same... everyone sees it at a ball with little electrons spinning around it like a planet in orbit. But this couldn't be further from the truth.

[Szaxx]

And the electron?
When they get this one correct we will have all the power we need...
1920's Flash Gordon style.

[ChopstickFox]

That's the problem with learning stuff at school... it'll be outdated by the time you leave.

So true... Thanks for sharing, very interesting

I don't know if there was a glitch or something, but the video starting playing backwards making the audio sound like satan... o_o

And mmm sausages. And yay lil robot legs xD

[catmeow]

That's incredible. Here is a youtube link to the same video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCvkkDSfIU

[Bedeekin]

Cool... Much better version. Thanks Catmeow!