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today's random molecular biology fact
just learnt that the mutation rate on human genome is 01 nucleotide for every 100000000 (10^8) nucleotides per generation (according Alberts, 6.ed)
Kindly allow me to give you a snippet, a little peak if you will, into my daily anxiety and the unnecessary problems it creates for me as an adult 💫
So, I'm a master's student getting my degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics (proud of that one). And I just started frequenting the lab everyday for my thesis and research studies.
In a lousy attempt to make friends, I went up to two, yes two, not one (pats self on the shoulder) lab technicians in order to "get to know them". During this quest, they asked me how old I was and without a second thought I replied "I'm 25!".
As the conversation moved on, smoothly dare I say, I remembered, I was born in 1995, I'm not 25 anymore, I'm turning 27 this year. So I start panicking in my brain thinking "how the hell do I even fix this?" "How do I bring it back up into the conversation that that's not my actual age?" "How would anyone go about that anyway?"
Do you just say "Hey, going back to our age convo, I just remembered I'm 27 this year haha, you were saying??!!!"
So I didn't correct myself, because who would believe me? Who in their right mind, forgets their age by TWO YEARS??!
So now I wallow in self pity thinking of all the times I'm going to have to smile and nod while they introduce me as the 25 year old.
Anyway, first day in the lab went okay???
THIS IS WHY WE HATE THE GENETICISTS
BECAUSE THEY PULL THIS BULLSHIT REGULARLY
Scientists identify substance that may have sparked life on Earth
Based on laboratory studies, Rutgers scientists say one of the most likely chemical candidates that kickstarted life was a simple peptide with two nickel atoms they are calling "Nickelback"
Bro if we solve abiogenesis and it gets named after Nickelback I am going to have an aneurysm