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Adorable Plush DNA Molecules Make Genetics Fun (Or Slightly Less Boring)

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The Nobel Prize doesn’t win itself, and if you’ve already planned your kids a successful career in science, it’s never too early to introduce them to complex concepts like DNA. And with these stuffed nucleobase characters, learning becomes a heck of a lot less tedious.

Available in green adenine, red thymine, black guanine, and blue cytosine versions, the nucleotides can even form base pairs using embedded magnets instead of the hydrogen bonds that actually keep them together at the atomic level. And if you don’t know what any of this means, then you’ve just realized the importance of getting this $30 set for your kids so they don’t grow up scratching their heads too. [ThinkGeek]

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