- Scipitie ( @Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English35•13 days ago
The"single cell pet" gets me even more… Like isn’t that a tad specific? Dogs? No prob! Rabbits? Be my guest. Amoeba? Fuck off, weirdo!
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) English6•13 days ago
Some guests have the stomach to hide their pets there
- janNatan ( @janNatan@lemmy.ml ) English4•13 days ago
Wait wait. What would happen if a long half-strand of DNA tried to pair with another but there was one letter wrong in the middle?
- IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) English6•13 days ago
Something called a “lesion” around a base mismatch, basically a bubble in the strand pairing. It can introduce kinks in the helix, and generally is the result of mutation in one strand.
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) English3•12 days ago
The Page d12 would put this straight in D&D territory
- nis ( @nis@feddit.dk ) English3•13 days ago
Single-stranded? Wouldn’t that be RNA?
- IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) English3•13 days ago
Nope. RNA is chemically different: different sugar in the backbone, and there are wayyyy more than 4 RNA bases (like 12 iirc)
- nis ( @nis@feddit.dk ) English2•12 days ago
Nice. I learned something new today 🙂
Not sure where I picked up my belief that RNA was just one side of DNA.
- IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) English2•12 days ago
It is how it’s generally taught in schools, which is unfortunate.