Jacksonville Makes It Into a Science Book

[Dog Walker]

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:

The 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.

[Ocklawaha]

Don't sweat it, I'm SURE they were talking about that city in North Carolina.