The meaning Of Rice

The meaning Of Rice

A group of scientists working in China and Switzerland have unlocked the code of rice DNA, making GM* rice possible

Below are the composite of a Grain of Rice 

• Bristle
• Palea
• Lemma
• Peri Carp
• Tegmen
• Aleurone layer
• Starchy endosperm
• Embryo
• Scutellum
• Epiblast
• Plumule
• Rachilia
• Radide
• Sterile lemmas

The Rice Genome

• Cutosine
• Guanine
• Adenine
• Thymine

The DNA Molecule

• The DNA molecule is held together by chemicals called bases
• These form the letters for the ‘Code of Life’. There are 12 of these chromosomes in the rice genome
• Rice uses the DNA calls to make proteins