Did you know that although DNA only has 4 nucleotides, it can code for 20 amino acids. A donation of a dollar per amino acid, or $20, will help us in paying for the registration fee for the competition.

Humans have 46 chromosomes per cell or 23 pairs. Coffee on the other hand, can have up to 88 chromosomes. Support our journey to the iGEM conference by donating $46, one for each chromosome of DNA.

During a cellular process (transcription), poly-A tail of around 150 base pairs is added to a piece of RNA. A donation of a dollar for every A nucleotide onto mRNA would help us get to our goal of paying the competition's registration fees.

In eukaryotes (like humans!) rRNA is found in clusters of up to 400 repreats. A dollar per repeat, $400, would help us get one step closer to meeting our registration goal. As a thank you, you will receive a quick behind the scenes video from the iGEM competition.

In 1951, Linus Pauling and his coworkers proposed the alpha helix and the beta pleated sheet as the two main motifs of protein secondary structure. In our project, the end product is often useful proteins. Your donations would help cover about half the registration cost of the competition. As a thank you, you will get an exclusive video of us walking through the project.