You are here. The Planets in Natural Colors. Several teachers and students have asked what the planets look like in true or natural colors. They've noticed that each planet's appearance can vary greatly in photographs, and that many of the photographs are labeled as a false-color view. Many times scientists enhance the colors, or contrast of an image to draw out more detail.
A critical feature of DNA is the ability of the nucleotides to make specific pairs: . Adenine pairs with Thymine and Cytosine pairs with Guanine. The human genome of Homo sapiens is stored on 23 chromosome pairs. 22 of these are autosomal chromosome pairs, while the remaining pair is sex-determining. The haploid human genome occupies a total of just over 3 billion DNA base pairs that means 6 billion base pairs per diploid cell.
Twenty-two of these matched pairs of chromosomes are called autosomes, while the 23rd pair determines your sex (male or female). Autosomal DNA is inherited from both parents, and includes random contributions from their parents, grandparents, and so on.