GATTACA

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GATTACA

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Write a movie analysis on the movie GATTACA

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  1. It represents the biological molecule, DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). GATTACA represents Guanine, Thiamine, Adenine, and Cytosine. The arrangement in a DNA molecule is: ATGC.
  2. DNA is double stranded, twisted or double helix structure of the molecule. The steps represent the nucleic bases of ATGC, the rails represent histones.
  3. The skin cells, nails and hair are important as they contain viable strands of DNA. The samples will be used to sequence DNA and determine genomes. This is possible today through illumina next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology uses clonal amplification and sequencing by synthesis (SBS) chemistry to enable rapid, accurate sequencing.

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