Biologists use ball-and-stick models to study complex molecules by representing atoms with balls and bonds with sticks. dna is a biological molecule that contains millions of atoms. what is a limitation of using a ball-and-stick model for dna

One of the major limitations of using the ball and stick model for DNA, is that within a single double stranded segment of DNA, one would have to use many many balls to represent atoms that are present in the sugar phosphate backbone, along with all of the main atoms that compose the nitrogenous bases of DNA, we also cannot construct or show the helical form of DNA, by using balls and sticks as well.