Here's What DNA Really Looks Like

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There’s more to DNA than just the double helix we know and love: under some conditions this familiar molecule can take on unfamiliar forms, each of which can have a different impact on our health. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: General overviews of alternate DNA structures: https://www.intechopen.com/books/dna-replication-current-advances/dna-structure-alphabet-soup-for-the-cellular-soul https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6545/ http://people.bu.edu/mfk/restricted566/dnastructure.pdf B-DNA and history of the double helix: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-of-dna-structure-and-function-watson-397/

Published 2020-11-01 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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