5.+The+discovery+of+the+DNA+Structure

==In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick declared that “We have discovered the Secret of life” which was the chemical that determines instructions for creating and replicating all living things which was DNA - Deoxyribonucleic acid. This had an impact over the whole globe as it has formed the era of “new biology” which led to biotechnology and the understanding of the human genetic blueprint. This has led to processes of cloning, genetically modified organisms and the use of pesticides, which has also had a huge impact of society. This discovery of DNA has helped us find criminals as fingerprints are like a tracking device, as no one has the same DNA or fingerprints so we can use fingerprints to determine who people are. ==

==Society has been greatly altered by the discovery of the DNA structure as it has transformed the way in which parts of the world work. Today we are able to determine a victim or criminal from a single finger print and are able to grow more nutritious produce which are resistant to harmful bugs or may not need as much caring. People who couldn’t have babies now can because of DNA and cloning has become possible. == == The DNA structure has impacted heavily on science and medicine. It has changed the future of science as identifying and studying genes has led to amazing breakthroughs of tackling diseases and deeper studies into the structure of DNA as we have a better knowledge of genetic diseases and infectious diseases, immune system, aging and cancer. I t is now much easier to diagnosis diseases, as DNA is the start of all organisms. Determining mutations in individuals uncovers if and why we develop certain diseases while others remain without diseases, which in most has helped in producing pharmaceuticals that can then treat the diseases that were once thought untreatable. ==

It has helped many people’s lives as you can know get custom drugs based on an individual’s genetic profile.
== Human Genome Project director Francis Collins said 50 years after the discovery //"It is so intertwined in every bit of what we do experimentally, in terms of perceiving our own position in the scheme of life on this planet. It has become one of those givens that is so central to your thinking that you stop thinking about it, but if somebody took it away from you, your whole intellectual foundation would collapse, and it would be unimaginable what we would be doing now if we didn't know about the double helix."// == == DNA has impacted on society because of how we are using DNA to our advantage. This is because people are unhappy with genetically modified foods or other biotechnologies as it’s not natural and they think that we should not be playing with material which determines characteristics of organisms. For example IVF is in other terms ‘playing god’ as such because we creating life unnaturally, by extracting an egg from a woman and then fertilising it ourselves in labs then planting it back into the woman’s womb to continue the process. ==