Free DNA Helix 3D Model

dna-helix.glb
Pastel ball and stick DNA double helix model with blue and pink strands and two colour base pairs on a white stand
DNA Helix 3D model (Lightweight, CC0)

Ball and stick DNA helix teaching model with two full turns, pastel backbone strands and colour coded base pairs on a chrome rod and white base.

Free under CC0 for personal and commercial use, no attribution. Download without login as GLB, FBX, BLEND, USDZ or OBJ. Lightweight with 15,268 triangles and 2K textures.

Download

$0 · CC0
Format
Download GLB 1.1 MB

CC0: no login, no attribution CC0 1.0

Work with this model

The tools run in your browser and load the web preview of this model. For the full quality files, use the downloads above.

Technical details

Quality tier
Lightweight Stylized, 2K or palette textures, game-ready
Triangles
15,268
Textures
2K (2,048 px) Base ColorRoughnessMetallicNormal
Dimensions
0.16 × 0.16 × 0.45 m (W × D × H)
Published

Size comparison

DNA Helix: 0.16 m wide and 0.45 m tall, next to a 1.80 m person1.80 m0.45 m0.16 m
DNA Helixperson 1.80 mBounding box to scale, next to a 1.80 m person.

About this model

A DNA helix 3d model in the style of a classroom ball and stick kit. Two full turns climb around a slim chrome centre rod, with twenty base pairs set at 36 degree steps just like the real B form. One backbone strand is light blue, the other soft pink, and a round node marks every place where a base pair docks. Each rung is split in the middle into two colours, yellow with mint and lilac with peach, which stand for the two possible pairings without any letters. A grey ball caps the rod, and the round white base shows a small heart with a heartbeat trace, the symbol shared by all pieces of the Cozy Hospital & Medical Kit. The model is 45 cm tall with a 16 cm base and has 15,268 triangles. Unlike the floating DNA Double Helix, this is a desk model for labs, schools and genetics scenes.

Good for

  • Genetics lab or biology classroom
  • Science fair or museum display
  • Educational game about cells
  • Desk decoration in a research office

Tags

Engine import notes

Unity GLB · FBX

Import the GLB with the glTFast package or use the FBX. 1 m in the file = 1 Unity unit.

Unreal Engine FBX

Use the FBX. The model is built in metres. Unreal works in centimetres and converts on import, so it arrives at real size (0.45 m = 45 cm).

Godot 4 GLB · FBX

Drag the GLB into the FileSystem dock. Godot 4 imports it directly, with materials. The FBX works too (Godot 4.3+ imports it natively).

Blender BLEND · GLB

Open the .blend directly, or import the GLB via File › Import › glTF 2.0.

Use it in: UnityUnrealGodotBlender

Kit

More from the Cozy Hospital & Medical Kit

Open kit
White hospital bed with mint head and foot boards, side rails, blue mattress, pink blanket and a raised backrest
Lightweight

Hospital Bed

24,404 triangles GLB 1.7 MB

Pair of aluminium forearm crutches with dark grips and mint cuffs leaning in a small mint wall stand
Lightweight

Crutches

7,936 triangles GLB 645 KB

Reclining white dentist chair with mint cushions, an overhead lamp on an arm, a spittoon bowl and an instrument tray
Lightweight

Dentist Chair

20,212 triangles GLB 1.4 MB

White column doctor scale with grey rubber platform, balance beam with mint and yellow weights and a height rod
Lightweight

Doctor Scale

8,844 triangles GLB 857 KB

Explore

Articulated peach human hand teaching model with mint finger joints on a round white stand with a chrome rod
Lightweight

Human Hand

Cozy Hospital & Medical Kit

15,068 triangles GLB 866 KB

Life size neutral jointed mannequin in peach with mint ball joints and a faceless head standing on a round white base
Lightweight

Human Body

Cozy Hospital & Medical Kit

23,096 triangles GLB 1.0 MB

Pastel human ribcage teaching model with cream ribs, light blue cartilage and a mint spine on a chrome rod and white base
Lightweight

Human Ribcage Model

Cozy Hospital & Medical Kit

23,292 triangles GLB 1.4 MB

White lab microscope with glowing base lamp, chrome nosepiece with coloured rings and a glass slide on a dark stage
Lightweight

Microscope

Cozy Hospital & Medical Kit

10,868 triangles GLB 800 KB

Mint rod-shaped bacterium with cutaway showing purple DNA coil, coral pili and two blue flagella
High Detail

Bacteria

398,688 triangles GLB 13 MB

Three red blood cells around a violet white blood cell with small yellow platelets in between
High Detail

Blood Cells

607,810 triangles GLB 19 MB

Spherical human cell with cutaway showing violet nucleus, orange mitochondria and green Golgi apparatus
High Detail

Human Cell

799,999 triangles GLB 26 MB