Create a 6 pages page paper that discusses the true beauty of dna and the quality of the life. They claimed that an elegant molecule called deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, was the “God Molecule”, the blueprint for every protein in our body (and the subsequent molecules those proteins go on to make), the stuff of life (What Is DNA? – Genetics Home Reference). So what is this holy grail of biological molecules?

This review will attempt to answer that question by covering the history of the discovery of the molecule, and its general structure and function. Because of its extraordinary properties, DNA forms the basis of life and our bodies as we know them.The history of the discovery of DNA has the drama of a spy novel and importance greater than nearly any scientific revelation before or after its discovery, yet credit for its discovery is mostly given to two major contributors.

The real discovery of the field of genetics occurred in a small monastery where Austrian monk Gregor Mendel worked with his pea plants (Gregor Mendel). Mendel observed that some plants produced strange, abnormal features whereas other plants grew typically. Mendel took abnormal plants and crossed them with normal plants to observe the progeny. If the daughter plants from the two parents showed traces of the abnormality from one of the parents, Mendel could attribute the abnormality to something inherited between generations of plants.

If, on the other hand, the plant did not show any traces of abnormality, Mendel could assume the environment caused the atypical features of the plant. Obviously, the daughters of the crossed plants showed traces of abnormality, and the field of genetics was started (Gregor Mendel), yet despite the brilliant work being done by Mendel, it would still be almost a century later until DNA was discovered.