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To: King Prout

Not in the slightest. It is a gene named by fruit fly geneticists and they are a bunch of WILD AND CRAZY GUYS! They have a gene called Decaplexaplegic, and when they found a gene that regulates that gene they named it Mothers against Decaplexaplegic. They also named a gene INDY for the Monty Python gag "I'm not dead yet", it is a gene that protects the cell from programmed cell death.


17 posted on 10/25/2005 9:45:58 PM PDT by USConstitutionBuff
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To: USConstitutionBuff

Thanks, I never knew this.


36 posted on 10/26/2005 11:58:52 PM PDT by Talking_Mouse (Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: USConstitutionBuff

Sonic hedgehog from gassed drosophila ....somehow fitting! We used to pack drinking straws with them after playing with their generations and then we slid the straws under some poor soul's door after pulling the cotton puff with which we corked them.


43 posted on 10/27/2005 5:10:43 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG... it could have been worse...we could have slid the chloroform under the door instead)
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