basic DNA

Today is the 1st day of my 2 day course at NIE. It's called basic DNA Science. Thought it would be a pretty boring course, but it turned out to be quite ok, plus we had some interesting hands-on activities. I came a little late due to a traffic jam n the video had already started. It was telling us about DNA n how a normal human being has 46 chromosomes altogether, anything more or less n we would be in trouble. Another point that caught my attention was something the person doing the voiceover said. He mentioned that a human being's n a plant's DNA was abt 45 % similar while a human's DNA is 99% similar to a mouse, n it seemed like all the DNA found in different species came from the same ancestor. To me, it seemed like everything just fit together like a puzzle, of course, that's because this "ancestor" is God! Our Father in Heaven created everything on this earth, we all have the DNA of our Creator. Our lecturer later explained to us how scientists had took more than 20 or 30 years to figure out what DNA was made up of n how it was actually a pretty simple process, to the scientists, when it was figured out at last. It really makes me think of human beings in general. Many of us set out thinking about things in a very complicated manner, when these things are actually very straightforward n simple. We as humans just like to complicate matters. Going for this course today also allows me to marvel at God's creation, how He managed to form every living thing in such an amazing way, especially when we had an activity on extraction of DNA from a banana slice, where the DNA was so visible after we allowed it to settle into the mixture of some chemicals for a while. It was really cool seeing the strands of DNA come to the surface of the mixture. Although i'm not much of a science person, i would say that i have found this course to be more enriching than i thought it would be.