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Community => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Dog Walker on January 27, 2013, 01:03:12 PM

Title: Jacksonville Makes It Into a Science Book
Post by: Dog Walker on January 27, 2013, 01:03:12 PM
But not in a good way!

Reading "The Violinist's Thumb" by Sam Kean, bestselling science writer.  It is about genetics and very readable.
#572.8 Kean in the library.

Page 160 of the Little, Brown July 2012 edition:

QuoteThe gene for the largest human protein, titin contains 178 fragments, totaling 80,000 bases, all of which must be stitched together precisely.  An even more ridiculously sprawling gene ---dystrophin the Jacksonville of human DNA--contains 14,000 bases of coding DNA among 2.2 million basis of intron cruft.
Title: Re: Jacksonville Makes It Into a Science Book
Post by: Ocklawaha on January 27, 2013, 01:07:49 PM
Don't sweat it, I'm SURE they were talking about that city in North Carolina.