Genome: The Secret of How Life Works

Closing May 25, 2009
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90% of your DNA is the same as a mouse?	50% of your DNA is the same as a banana?	60% of your DNA is the same as a fruit fly?

Discover more amazing facts and learn what makes you so you in Genome: The Secret of How Life Works.

The future is here! Scientists have mapped the human genome - your complete set of genes. Genes are the secret codes, or recipes that make us who we are and that influence who we might become. Your genome is like an enormous recipe book and with its decoding come new possibilities.

The Cookie Factory - A visualization of protein production that children and adults alike can grasp, with DNA, genes and proteins as the ingredients and recipes for "making" human beings. The Cell Explorer - a large movable flat video screen that allows visitors to navigate a large map of a cell and discover the workings of its parts and processes.

In this highly engaging zip section, kids can physically put together a DNA strand and watch it move.

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Genome: The Secret of How Life Works is made possible by Pfizer Inc and was produced by Evergreen Exhibitions in collaboration with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research.

Genome: The Secret of How Life Works at the Witte Museum is generously supported by the George and Fay Young Foundation, the Saint Susie Charitable Foundation, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, FOX San Antonio, My 35 TV and the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs.

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