Page 32 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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NA, the basic genetic material of all
living things, is a long molecule resem-
bling a spiral staircase, whose details we
shall be examining in due course. DNA ex-

ists in all living things–human beings,
flowers, birds, flies, and even bacteria. It
contains all the necessary information re-
garding the features of the living cell and
its regular operations. In addition, de-
tailed information regarding a living
thing's external appearance, the kind of
structure it will have, how it will grow and
how its organs will work, are all deter-
mined beforehand in DNA. For example,
an individual's DNA contains information
about such details as height, eye color and

physical structure, how the body will de-
fend itself in the face of which dangers,
and how it will produce proteins, the
building blocks of the cell. The DNA of a
rosebush contains millions of pieces of de-
tailed, coded information about its flow-
er's scent and color, the structure of its
thorns, the shape of its leaves and the