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organic bases that make up the DNA codes.
Although the tools and functions are the same in
every human being, the particular codes that allow
people to be different from one another are made up of
these hydrogen bases. The differences in the way these
four different bases are set out are the reason for all the
differences between people. These bases are called Adenine,
Guanine, Cytosine, and Thymine. They are linked to each
other according to specific rules. Like a foreign language
that scientists are just beginning to learn to read, these
four types of hydrogen-based organic bases conceal the
entire code of our biological existence.
These bases that make up the DNA molecule are
known by their initial letters, A, T, G and C. The
information in the data bank in the cell nucleus is stored
in this way in an alphabet consisting of these four letters.
Each gene, which comprises one portion of the DNA
molecule, determines a particular feature of the human
body. Countless properties like height, eye colour, the
material and the shape of the nose, ear, and skull are formed
by the command of the related genes. We can compare every
one of these genes to the pages of a book. On the pages there
are scripts made up of the letters A – T – G – C.
There are approximately 200,000 genes in the DNA of a
human cell. Every gene is composed of a special sequence of
nucleotides, the number of which ranges between 1000 and
186,000 according to the type of the protein it correlates. These
genes hold the codes of nearly 200,000 proteins that function in
the human body and control the production of these proteins.

The Ordering of Genes
One of the most important discoveries of molecular biology was that
some genes are more influential than others. The reason for this is that

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