Page 78 - If Darwin Had Known about DNA

Harun Yahya

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n every cell in your body lies a glori-
ous treasure house of information, written
in a language spoken by nobody on Earth,.
The alphabet of this language consists of

just four letters, and each letter stands for a
chemical molecule known as a base or nu-
cleotide. The genetic "words" known as co-
dons are made up of these letters. This
DNA language of just four letters consists
of the molecules adenine, thymine, guanine
and cytosine, or the letters A, T, G and C for
short. All the information contained in the
data bank within the nucleus is encoded in
this four-letter alphabet. When hundreds of
the letters A, T, G and C are taken together,
the result is long, meaningful "sentences"
known as genes, which describe how the

processes in the body should take place and
give instructions regarding them. Millions
of these "letters" set out in a meaningful se-
quence one after the other comprise the
DNA molecule.
In his book Our Molecular Nature, the
molecular biologist David S. Goodsell re-