How DNA can take on the properties of sand or toothpaste
Monday, May 2, 2016 - 14:20
in Biology & Nature
When does DNA behave like sand or toothpaste? When the genetic material is so densely packed within a virus, it can behave like grains of sand or toothpaste in a tube.That's essentially what biophysicists discovered when they began closely examining the physical properties of DNA jammed inside viruses.