Aisle 23No. 380 of 460
Splashery
DNA
199,964 small parts. Assembled in your browser.
Empty. Now look down.
Swipe across the pack to tear it open.
Press and hold. It pulls itself together.
Let go to drop it.
It stays in its pack here. The Playground has the rest.
Tiny World · Built from a recipe
DNA
DNA is the long molecule that carries the instructions for building and running a living thing.
Play with it in the Playground
How to play
Tap it to unzip it and zip it back up.
Toy facts
- Item
- No. 380 of 460
- Shelf
- Aisle 23, Tiny World
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Small parts
- 199,964
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Batteries
- None
- Assembly
- It does that itself
- Licenses
- CC0
- Price
- $0.00
Small parts are the splats in its usual build on a computer. A phone may draw fewer.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unzip and zip | Tap | ||
| Unzip | Button | ||
| Strand | Color | #5b8def | |
| Partner | Color | #f06b9a |
About it
DNA is the long molecule that carries the instructions for building and running a living thing. It is shaped like a twisted ladder, a double helix: two strands wind around each other, joined by pairs of bases, A with T and C with G, like the rungs.
Tap it and it unzips almost to the bottom, the bases lighting up in pairs as it opens, then zips back up. A cell unzips its DNA like this to copy it. In 1953 scientists worked out its shape, helped by Rosalind Franklin's X-ray pictures. The DNA in a typical human cell with a nucleus would stretch about 2 meters if pulled straight. Partner sets the matching strand's color.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,995 at Low, and up to 300,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Zipper Unzip 3 (Slow) .wav (dna-zipper.mp3) | RutgerMuller | CC0 1.0 |
