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Originally posted by RedBalloon
I don't think tripple helix DNA is possible. DNA forms when two strands come together to form a ladder like shape. Each strand has a row of nucleotides that match up with the strand on the opposite side. A-T and C-G. They pair. That's how DNA forms, replicates, splits, forms new cells, etc. How would a 3rd strand fit into that equasion? Free floating? RNA would have to code for it, and the complete cellular makeup of a person with tripple helix DNA would be so different I doubt they would even be considered human, let alone survive as a living being.
Originally posted by duff beer dragon
Isn't the double helix just the best-fit shape for the known components of DNA? I don't think anyone has ever actually seen DNA look like a double helix, the only way they can look at it means that it's structure is out of the environment where it does it's thing, so it cannot be seen it as it in fact looks.
Originally posted by Howard the Dolphin
I was talking with a co-worker and she mentioned hearing about infants being found with triple helix DNA...she didn't have anymore information than that. I was reading a thread a couple days ago that mentioned "Indigo People" of something who have been prophesized by Cayce (I believe) to be somewhat altered humans. In Cayce's prediction they should have started being born by now.
Or could this just be a genetic mutation?
[edit on 29-9-2004 by Howard the Dolphin]
Originally posted by IntelRetard
Indigo people are those born with 2 sets of DNA. It is a mixture of 2 people essentially. Very rare condition in which some appear with 2 types of skin color and even hair color.
google it
Originally posted by Sonata
Originally posted by Howard the Dolphin
I was talking with a co-worker and she mentioned hearing about infants being found with triple helix DNA...she didn't have anymore information than that. I was reading a thread a couple days ago that mentioned "Indigo People" of something who have been prophesized by Cayce (I believe) to be somewhat altered humans. In Cayce's prediction they should have started being born by now.
Or could this just be a genetic mutation?
[edit on 29-9-2004 by Howard the Dolphin]
Shes wrong a third helix is an icomplete strand of DNA your friend needs to take 12 years of medical school.
Theres plenty of room in the existing strand to acomidate for extra nuclietide sequences.
What she should have said is the kids had a more complete strand now that might be possible.
Triple-stranded DNA was first described in 1957. It is known to occur in only one in vivo biological process: as an intermediate product during the action of the E. coli recombination enzyme RecA. Its role in that process is not understood.