The Sustainable Genome Sculpture - Background Information

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The Artist
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Although the pairs formed between the nucleotide bases in DNA are very specific (A with T and G with C) there is no restriction to the order in which the bases are arranged on a particular DNA strand. This allows a tremendous amount of information to be stored in the long molecule of DNA. The sequence of bases can be varied in countless ways to form the code for genetic information. When DNA replicates, a particular sequence, or code, serves as a template for the information that is passed on.

A proposed sculptural project celebrating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the DNA double helix by Crick and Watson.