Nucleus Nucleolus Cytoplasm The control center of the cell and dictates what all of the other organelles do. Stores the DNA in eukaryotes.Dark spherical body found in the nucleus; makes the ribosomes. A jelly-like material that surrounds the cell organelles.ucleus Nucleolus Cytoplasm The control center of the cell and dictates what all of the other organelles do. Stores the DNA in eukaryotes.
The regular structure and data redundancy provided by the DNA double helix make DNA well suited to the storage of genetic information, while base-pairing between DNA and incoming nucleotides provides the mechanism through which DNA polymerase replicates DNA, and RNA polymerase transcribes DNA into RNA.
Adenine (A) always pairs with thymine (T); cytosine (C) always pairs with guanine (G). This pairing is the basis for the mechanism by which DNA molecules are copied when cells divide, and the pairing also underlies the methods by which most DNA sequencing experiments are done. The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs that spell out the instructions for making and maintaining a human being.