Nucleotides and the double helix. DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the heritable material found in all cells. DNA provides the instructions to build, maintain, and regulate cells and organisms and is passed on when cells divide and when organisms reproduce.
Calculating Conception. Gestational age, or the age of the baby, is calculated from the first day of the motherâs last menstrual period.Since the exact date of conception is almost never known, the first day of the last menstrual period is used to measure how old the baby is. Use our Pregnancy Calculator to calculate these dates for you.he baby can be measured as early as 5 or 6 weeks after the motherâs last menstrual period. Measuring the baby using ultrasound is most accurate in early pregnancy. It becomes less accurate later in pregnancy. The best time to estimate gestational age using ultrasound is between the 8th and 18th weeks of pregnancy.
Do the math! However, this is how to determine an estimated date of conception if you havenât been tracking your cycles. First of all, determine the date that you started your last period, and mark it down, if you havenât already. Then add eleven days to the date your last period started. This is the first day that it was possible for you to conceive. Now, add another ten days to the first day that conception was possible. Those ten days are the days that it is possible for you to have conceived. You will have to narrow it down within those ten days to determine what your actual date of conception was.