Tag: DNA
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Human Chromosome 2: The Fusion, and the 1,280 Who Carried It
You have 46 chromosomes. Every other great ape has 48. What sits at 2q13, the case against reading it as a fusion, and why…
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The Shroud of Turin: A Negative Nobody Ordered
Dust vacuumed from the cloth in 1978 has now been sequenced, and the result was reported as evidence the Shroud came from India. The…
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Junk DNA: An Archive Nobody Curated
An onion has five times more DNA than you do. That single fact is the hardest question in genomics, and it is the one…
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Jacob’s Lab: The Genetics Experiment in Genesis 30
Laban removed every spotted sheep and still lost. What he culled was the phenotype – the genotype stayed in his flock. The two verses…
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Why Did Ancient Humans Live 900 Years?
Plot the Genesis ages and you do not get noise – you get a decay curve that flattens at exactly the number the text…
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The Divine Engineer: The Biology of Adam and Eve
Formed, then breathed – two separate operations. What dust of the ground gets chemically right, why tsela probably does not mean rib, and the…
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The Hijacked Code: Your Placenta Was Built by a Virus
Eight percent of your genome is retroviral. Protein-coding genes are 1.5%. The protein that builds the placenta is a domesticated viral envelope – and…