Genetic America

"A map of the Americas measuring just a few hundred nanometres across has been created out of meticulously folded strands of DNA," New Scientist reports. The map uses "a new technique for manipulating molecules dubbed 'DNA origami'."


The map, which "sketches out both North and South America at a staggering 200-trillionths of their actual size, aims to demonstrate the precision and complexity with which DNA can be manipulated."
So what I want to know is if you plug that patch of folded code back into a live organism, would it affect the creature's growth and form? A living map; you perform a complicated and life-long self-analysis, only to realize that you are actually a cartographic guide to the next supercontinent.
Rivers flow through you; people navigate by your chromosomes. Someone tries to clone you, but a small island chain appears in the test tube instead...