The story for kids
This is DNA, the instruction book of life. Look, it looks like a twisted ladder. It says what color your eyes will be, what kind of hair you'll have, and lots of other things. If you stretched out the DNA from just one cell, you'd get a thread about two meters long!
Facts
- DNA looks like a twisted ladder.
- It says what colour your eyes will be, and many other things.
- If you stretched out the DNA from one cell, it would be about two metres long.
Numbers
- Width
- 2 nanometres
- Length
- ~2 m (in one cell)
- Job
- Keeps the instructions