This is DNA in its classic double helix form.

You'll be familiar with the double helix of DNA.

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It's a double helix.

So there's a strand that goes like this, goes along one helix and binds it jumps to another helix and comes back.

So Wilkins said he thought it was the helix.

And when Watson and Crick in the '50s first decoded this beautiful double helix that we know as the DNA molecule very long, complicated molecule we then started on this journey to understand that inside of that DNA is a language that determines the characteristics, our traits, what we inherit, what diseases we may get.

X ray diagram, he thought was comparable with the helix.

You mix them together and they make a rigid double helix.

It was the first DNA phage, DNA virus, DNA genome that was actually sequenced.

And you can see a little bit of double helix forming there.

Now it wasn't DNA she didn't find DNA.

We want to look at individual strands and not think about the double helix.

One set of DNA goes to one side, the other side gets the other set of DNA identical copies of DNA.

So, this is normal DNA, what you think of as normal DNA.

It's humanity's DNA.

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And when you're done, it makes this design, which, if you squint, is the word helix.

When you look at DNA origami, you can see that what it really is, even though you think it's complicated, is a bunch of double helices that are parallel to each other, and they're held together by places where short strands go along one helix and then jump to another one.

And you can make a map of the Americas and spell DNA with DNA.

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This is crystallized DNA.

So we have discovered that dinosaur DNA, and all DNA, just breaks down too fast.

The next thing is, that virus DNA made stuff that chopped up the bacteria DNA.

We have our nucleic DNA that everybody thinks of as our DNA, but we also have DNA in our mitochondria, which are the energy packets of the cell.

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But it's not dinosaur DNA.

I extracted DNA from them.

And DNA also copies itself.

They're encoded in the DNA.

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It feels the DNA origami.

And it has no DNA.

So that's DNA origami. That's one way. There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA.

If we unwind the double helix and unzip the two strands, you see these things that look like teeth.

So again, we begin with DNA.

Now, a quick primer on DNA.

DNA is a very elegant molecule.

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Synthetic DNA, the ability to synthesize DNA, has changed at sort of the same pace that DNA sequencing has over the last decade or two, and is getting very rapid and very cheap.