DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a remarkable molecule. Each of our cells has a strand of DNA that, if stretched out, would reach about 3 meters in length. So all of the DNA from all of our cells is about 100 trillion meters long!
All living organisms, from the earliest known, single-celled Archaea to the blue whale contain DNA as the blueprint for their genes. Even more incredible, the DNA of the millions of different species on Earth is comprised of just four different bases – adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine. These four bases are represented by the letters A, G, T, and C. Once they are transcribed into RNA, the T becomes a U.
Different parts of your cell “read” the DNA and translate what they’ve read into amino acids, which make up proteins. These proteins become the unique physical characteristics that are you (brown eyes, for example). The two-step process is known as transcription and translation. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to translate the genetic code given here into amino acids, then find a single letter or single digit code to further translate into coordinates of a geocache. I have given the zeros for the coordinates; those are not part of the puzzle to be solved.
Here are your coordinates:
44 GCAUGC.UGCAUACAC
124 0 GAG.UUUUUUUUU
Happy Hunting!
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.