Today we were taken back to our kindergarten years of arts and crafts. We were given four sheets of paper that had half of a DNA. We were supposed to use our extremely tiny safety scissors to carefully cut up the DNA pieces and stick them together with tape to make a paper model of a double helix.
But, a lot of us forgot what arts and crafts and fancy paper cutting is. I mean, its been a good ten years since someone gave us scissors and paper and told us to cut shapes. Cut us some slack. We're only sixteen.
So after the complicated cutting (I swear it's like performing surgery), we taped up the bases (A,C,T,G). The tape acted like hydrogen bonding: Three pieces of tape for C and G, and two pieces of tape for A and T.
It was so much harder than you'd think it would be.
The next class, we're going to be working with DNA replication, which means more cutting! Yay! I'm going to fail…
Until next time.
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