DNA is so efficient that all the information . . . necessary to specify the design of all the species of organisms which have ever existed on the planet . . . could be held in a teaspoon and there would still be room left for all the information in every book ever written.
A gene is only about 1-3% of a person's DNA. The rest controls the activity of genes
DNA is an encoder of information that works analogously to a four-letter alphabet much like how we arrange letters into words and phrases with specific meanings.
DNA shows once and for all that no consistent patterns of genes across the human genome exist to distinguish one race from another. People who have lived in the same geographic region for many generations may have some alleles in common, but no allele will be found in all members of one population and in no members of any other
We share 85% of our DNA with mice
DNA has so much storage capacity that a single lily seed has as much information as sixty Encyclopaedia Britannica and a primitive amoeba as much has one-thousand.
We share 98.7% of our DNA with chimpanzees and bonobos
DNA is a fragile molecule given to damage --- About a thousand times a day, transcription errors or ultraviolet light results in mutations that can result in any number of genetic diseases such as cancer or Alzheimer's
DNA is compact -- if you unraveled all the DNA found within a human it could be stretched to Pluto and back
A DNA molecule is about 2.5 nanometers in width
DNA is 41% shared between humans and bananas
We share 60% of our DNA with fruit flies and 2/3 of those genes are known to be involved in cancer
DNA is a complex organic molecule characterized as the building block of life and appropriately shaped like a spiral staircase to nowhere.