3D DNA model Inventor 2011

Hello people of the internet. What you're seeing is a 3d model of DNA that I designed and assembled in Autodesk Inventor 2011. As you can see, it is designed to scale with a double helix backbone that shows major and minor grooves. The bases are attached to the sugar portion of the backbone and each base is held to its counterpart by 2 or 3 hydrogen bonds. The red base is adenine, blue is thymine, purple is guanine, teal is cytosine. Each full turn on this model is 34 centimeters and contains 10 base pairs. The design process for this model took about a week. I had to go through several different prototypes to get one that looks as nice as this. Originally I left out a few key parts of DNA like major and minor grooves, hydrogen bonds, and the backbone was solid instead of split into sugar and phosphate parts.

This model was made for my biotechnical engineering class and I'm very proud of it.

I can't take all of the credit for this model though. Nicholas and Jade did contribute to the researching of dimensions and the design of the bases, but since I had the most experience with Inventor, the majority of the work was done by me.

If you have any questions about my model or how I made it, feel free to ask in a comment or message. I was tempted to upload the files so others could improve on them, but that could also open the door to people using this model for their own assignment without crediting me and I wouldn't appreciate that.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• 3d
• dna
• model
• autodesk
• inventor
• 2011
• design
• biotechnical
• engineering
• deoxyribonucleic
• acid

[snapple383]

each fold is .34 NANOMETERS DOUCHEBAG NOT CENTIMETERS

that would be a huge double helix whoo.

[matilda7187]

hey whats matreials do you used to make the DNA MODEL i got the samme assignment to do like urs.

[porthacking]

Hey, this is fantastic.

I am currently working on a model similar to this, but in Blender. I don't need as much detail, but I would like to have the major and minor grooves, the correct number of base pairs per turn. Do you have any detail about how to get the correct groove orientations and proportions.?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Firenshell]

Gene Splicing, DNA Structure

[srtanner1]

This is awesome! Could you post a link to the details? We are working on the same project in BE.