Today in class we talked about nucleic acids. Every time I see figures in the textbook, I have difficult time to visualize them beyond how they are portrayed. Likewise, when we saw the nucleic acid pictures in class today, I thought of them more as flat figures in the 2D shape that they are portrayed as in front my eyes. I forgot that these hexagon and pentagon figures we see are actually in 3D. They can rotate, they can go into and out of the page, but they just can’t printed on the page like that. I often forget the larger picture of the biomolecules, in this case nucleic acids, that can in reality twist and turn to ultimately form all the genetic information in our bodies.
I think that using figures or using program to allow us just to see them in 3D would definitely help for us to see how nucleic acids really are in our bodies and not just flat figures!