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FOR KIDS: The rest of your DNA
Surprise: Scientists find most of human DNA molecule carries out important functions
Web edition: September 27, 2012
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: An international team of scientists has determined that a good chunk of our DNA may act as switches that turn genes “on” and “off.”
National Human Genome Research Institute
The tiniest, most complicated set of instructions just got a little easier to read, thanks to a giant scientific project called ENCODE, which recruited more than 400 scientists from all over the world. Those instructions reside in a long molecule called DNA. And one copy of this DNA resides within almost every cell, telling it how to operate.
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