DNA
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, a line every 0.2 nm. A strawberry is about seven million times taller.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Deoxyribonucleic acid, in full.
- Height
- 4.6 nm, this piece. A whole strand averages a centimeter.
- Weight
- 12 zeptograms, this piece.
- Build
- A twisted ladder, 2 nm wide. This piece: 12 rungs, just over one turn.
- Marks
- This piece spells CGCGAATTCGCG. So does its partner.
- Associates
- Strawberries keep eight sets, 56 strands a cell. You get by on two.
- Habits
- Leaves mashed strawberries in dish soap, salt and cold rubbing alcohol, like wet cotton.
- First seen
- In pus from hospital bandages.
- Last seen
- A 5 mL tube marked STRAWB in the freezer at HQ.
of them in one strawberry, give or take: 56 long strands a cell.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for DNA, No. 17. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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