{"id":222,"date":"2017-03-17T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/aggregate\/2017\/03\/17\/double-helix-sweetie-structure\/"},"modified":"2017-08-06T20:31:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T20:31:59","slug":"double-helix-sweetie-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/aggregate\/2017\/03\/17\/double-helix-sweetie-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Helix Sweetie Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp71617\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_0876-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\"><\/p>\n<p>Today we learnt about how the Double Helix structure has base pairs made up of nucleotides called A, T, C,&nbsp; and G. A only connect with T and C only connects with G. We used coloured sweets to represent the nucleotides and cocktail sticks to represent the backbone of the double helix. The double helix structure provides a code for our DNA just like an instruction manual. It determines how we look and act. DNA is what makes you, you.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know if you stretch out all of your DNA strands then you can reach from the Earth to the Moon and back&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3000 times!<\/p>\n<p>We thought this was a sweet activity!<\/p>\n<p>By P7A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we learnt about how the Double Helix structure has base pairs made up of nucleotides called A, T, C,&nbsp; and G. A only connect with T and C only connects with G. We used coloured sweets to represent the nucleotides and cocktail sticks to represent the backbone of the double helix. The double helix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/kpsp71617\/2017\/03\/17\/double-helix-sweetie-structure\/\">Continue reading <span>Double Helix Sweetie Structure<\/span> <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/aggregate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/aggregate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/aggregate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/aggregate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/aggregate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/aggregate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/aggregate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sb\/aggregate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}