Genome Quilts

Beverly St. Clair has originated a way of encoding genetic information in quilt designs. The four bases in DNA are represented as follows:

genome quilt description

Thus, the base sequence,
GATCGCCCTT

 becomes
genome3
and

genome4

becomes
genome5

Learn more about the origin of the genome quilt design.

Go to nationalgeographic.com for an excellent and easy way to obtain a sequence of part of your own DNA (suitable for encoding in a genome quilt), learn about your deep ancestry, and contribute to an ethical worldwide project to understand the history of the human species.