DNA: School Edition (Oberon Modern Plays)

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From the start, she never feels showed remorse when she thinks Adam has died. Finding it, "exciting".' Everyone else stays calm, keep your mouth shut. Tell no one or we'll all go to prison. Just get on with things. As it turns out, I needn't have worried. The play isn't about DNA, genetics or even science. It's about group psychology and the lengths to which you would go to protect yourself and your friends. As the synopsis teases: 'It's a play about being human'. Lou has no complicated speeches but instead speaks using simple sentences or short phrases. Phrases such as ‘We’re screwed’ (p34) make her appear young/ not assertive and relies on being given instruction. She also appears to believe the lies the group have created (p35)

I sometimes think I wonder, what would you do If I killedmyself right here in front of you? Like, what do you do?! What do you do, Phil?! Scientist use the term "double helix" to describe DNA's winding, two-stranded chemical structure. This shape - which looks much like a twisted ladder - gives DNA the power to pass along biological instructions with great precision. Brian's journey matches that of Adam himself, He was bullied, told what to do, went mad and in the end is more significant in his absence than his presence.' Scene 3: Adam is alive and has been living in a hedge. He has survived by living off dead animals. He has clearly sustained a head injury. Phil instructs Jan, Mark and Lou to leave and not say anything. He shows Cathy how to kill Adam by tying a plastic bag around Brian’s head (who is by not on medication and is clearly losing his mind). Leah begs him not to do this.You know, being bullies? Within a group? Or if it’s a constant theme of human history. Does that bother you Phil? It's clear that the gang has its own set of rules, which override those of the world outside. Going outside the gangs ranks, is a no-no.'

It says "The phosphodiester bonds that join one DNA nucleotide to another always link the 5’ carbon of the first nucleotide to the 3’ carbon of the second nucleotide... These bonds are called 5’-3’ phosphodiester bonds." but DNA is synthesized from 5' to 3' direction according to the "How DNA is replicated" video where the 5'C of the second nucleotide is always linked to the 3'C of the first nucleotide. So shouldn't it say "The phosphodiester bonds that join one DNA nucleotide to another always link the 3’ carbon of the first nucleotide to the 5’ carbon of the second nucleotide... These bonds are called 3’-5’ phosphodiester bonds"? Scene 3: The police have found a man that fits the description of the man that Phil concocted because Cathy used her ‘initiative’ to find a man that matched the description. The plan has gone wrong. Brian is refusing to go into the police station to identify the man who is being framed. Phil threatens him with being taken up to the grille if he doesn’t go. Brian goes. DNA, as a drama, takes the negativity and nihilism of a group of teenagers to a wholly different level to that which has been seen in literature before, eg. Catcher in the Rye. There is virtually no communication with the world outside the friendship group portrayed in the opening scenes. The world of the characters takes very little notice of the rest of society until faced with the consequences of an act of wilful and ‘mindless’ aggression. The aftermath of this act brings the characters closer together and pulls them apart. Scene 1: The audience learn that someone is ‘not going’…this is a reference to Brian not going to the police stationIt appears Cathy has shown initiative. She's managed to find a fat balding postman with bad teeth and rubbed to rub his DNA on the jumper.' So we were sort of, well alright, taking the p BLEEP s sort of. You know what he's like, he was sort of hanging around--

Scene 1: Mark and Jan discuss that someone is ‘dead’ and this throws the audience into the middle of the action.

Besides the DNA located in the nucleus, humans and other complex organisms also have a small amount of DNA in cell structures known as mitochondria. Mitochondria generate the energy the cell needs to function properly.