DNA and Genetic Mutations

Author's Note: This is my final essay for my DNA project. This mainly explains what DNA is and how it impacts genetic mutations. In this essay, I wanted to work on my organization. I wanted to make sure that each paragraph didn't repeat anything that I mentioned earlier. Also, I wanted to make sure that I had a strong thesis statement to start the paper. 

In our generation, people try to act and be like one another. Although, your DNA is not set up to be like another person. DNA is located in every part of your body, so it makes sure that you will always be yourself.  Your genes are almost exactly like DNA when it comes to this. Genetic mutations are what describes you as a person and what makes you unique.  

                                                                                                                                     

Genetic mutations are a very important part of your body, and explain who you are. Each genetic mutation has been inherited by your parents or during your lifetime. Most of them are passed on from parent to child when you are born and those are called heredity mutations. A heredity mutation stays in your body for you entire life, where point and base mutations do not. A point mutation is one of the most common types of mutations there are, and this changes a single nucleotide base pair. Where a base mutation can be added to your body or deleted.  What you look like and who you will be like is what describes genetic mutations.

Different mutations have a lot to do with who you are as a person, and so does DNA. DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid, and is located in every cell you have.  Genetic mutations are in fact similar to your DNA. For example, they both determine what color your eyes will be when you are born, and even how tall you could be. Genetic mutations are not the only part of your body that describes who you are as a person. DNA is also what makes that decision.

DNA may be about what you look like, although the structure of it is what does its job. Your DNA looks like a ladder when it is stretched out. This is called a double helix. A double helix are strands of your DNA coiled together. On a double helix, there are four different types of nitrogenous bases. They are called Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Thymine.  Adenine and Guanine are part of one base, where Cytosine and Thymine are part of another. Week hydrogen bases are what makes the two groups stay together. Your DNA and genetic mutations are the most important part of your body. Although without your double helix, they wouldn’t exist.

Even though DNA and genetic mutations are different, they are still similar through something called chromosomes. In your body, each person has forty-six chromosomes. When you are born both your mom and dad gives twenty-three chromosomes to you. Each chromosome has a different meaning. For example, how you behave and even what you will look like is what thay do.  If there were no chromosomes in everyone’s body, each person would be the same.

Although genetic mutations are very important as it is, DNA is as important. Your DNA is the blueprint of your life, which means that whatever you do or will do your DNA will have some effect to it. DNA is also important because you use it to determine criminal cases and your family. Not only that, it determines the structure of your cells. Like whether or not it would be a nerve cell or an eye cell. DNA is very important when it comes to your life, and who you are as a person.

Genetic mutations are what makes you unique and describes who you are. Like I said before, your DNA is not set up so you can act and be like someone else. Every part of DNA goes along with helping you be yourself. Same goes for genetic mutations. Every persons DNA exists once in their life, and you should cherish that. Your DNA makes you unique for who you are, and that is what makes it special.