Episode Details

Your DNA contains all the instructions your body needs to function. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll figure out what this giant instruction manual looks like and how this three-billion-letter code gets copied into your trillions of cells through DNA replication.

Introduction: DNA & The Human Genome 00:00
The Structure of DNA 1:36
Chromosomes 3:51
DNA Replication 4:16
How DNA Replication Works 6:06
Mutations 7:51
The Okazakis 10:04
Review & Credits 11:23

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