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

Thus, the base sequence,



becomes

and

becomes



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.