Abundant in the swamps and marshes across south Louisiana, crawfish were a favorite food of early residents. Centuries later, crawfish season in Louisiana is still exciting, with crawfish boils and backyard parties a time-honored tradition. Commercial sales of crawfish in Louisiana began in the late 1800s.
Deoxyribonucleic acid (/diËÉksiËraÉªbÉµ.njuËËkleÉª.É¨k ËaesÉªd/ ; ËÃ¦SÉªD) dna is a molecule that carries most of the genetic instructions used in the, development functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many. viruseshe two DNA strands are known as polynucleotides since they are composed of simpler units called nucleotides. Each nucleotide is composed of a nitrogen-containing nucleobase âeither cytosine (C), guanine (G), adenine (A), or thymine (T)âas well as a monosaccharide sugar called deoxyribose and a phosphate group.
A set of human chromosomes contains one copy of each of the roughly 30,000 genes in the human genome - the term used to refer to the complete genetic instructions for an organism. DNA is found throughout the body. Each cell contains all of the organism's genetic instructions stored as DNA. However, each cell uses only the instructions from part of the DNA. For example, a muscle cell uses the DNA that specifies the muscle apparatus, whereas a nerve cell uses DNA that specifies the nervous system.