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February 13, 2003

Wisdom from my Bio Professor:

On mitochondria:

"The mitochondria produce ATP, which, unlike food energy, can then be used everywhere else in the cells. It's much like using a credit card rather than an out-of-state check. ATP: It's everywhere you want to be."

On chromosomes:

"And what has always baffled me is that lesbian pornography is labeled as 'Triple X' when in fact it should be 'Quadruple X,' as it consists of two sets of X chromosomes."

On plant life:

"So you can see by this diagram that while humans need plants, plants do not need humans. I know a lot of you are living away from your parents' homes for the first time, but I don't care how independent you think you are: there's not a damn one of you who can beat out a banana tree for self-sufficiency."

Posted by didofoot at February 13, 2003 11:58 AM

Comments

oh, those crazy bio guys. the life of every party.

seriously, though? the dyke porn remark was f*cking hysterical.

but doesn't that mean that straight porn should be XXXY? and what about 3-ways? XXXXXY? and forget about accurately labelling gang-bang movies. XYXYXYXYXYXYXYXYXYXYXYXYXX? fuhgeddaboutit.

Posted by: Ian at February 13, 2003 12:57 PM

well, these days i'm down with the good-old XY sex myself.

Posted by: peacock at February 13, 2003 01:02 PM

THESE days hm?

Posted by: didofoot at February 13, 2003 01:50 PM

(know what i mean, gay?)

Posted by: didofoot at February 13, 2003 01:50 PM

no no, not XYXY ...

Posted by: peacock at February 13, 2003 01:52 PM

oops. knock knock giovanni.

Posted by: didofoot at February 13, 2003 01:57 PM

So, Allen, you're into XYXY, huh? Tell me, are you dominant or recessive?

Posted by: jason at February 13, 2003 02:04 PM

I think it's a love connection. woo woo.

Posted by: tracy at February 13, 2003 02:25 PM

i wanna get me a ticket for that train. choo choo.

Posted by: michele at February 13, 2003 02:38 PM

ah jason, that took me a sec, but it was worth it.

Posted by: allen at February 13, 2003 11:40 PM

The odd thing is that she used a banana tree as her example of self sufficiency, which is totally bogus. The modern banana tree is 100% dependent on humans because it is a seedless asexual plant. You can see more about how bananas depend on humans here

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/chlee/plsc211/labmanual/lab3.PDF

and you can learn more about why, the banana being asexual and thereby having virtually no genetic variation, is probably going to dissapear in the next 10 years since it can't adapt.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/07/0726_wirebanana.html

Posted by: gene at February 14, 2003 08:44 AM

but.....i like bananas. much like a monkey.

Posted by: michele at February 14, 2003 09:13 AM

Yeah, thanks Gene. Ruin the whole experience of taming a wild, independent banana and popping it into your mouth, why don't you.

Posted by: jason at February 14, 2003 09:30 AM

hwee! image: banana with little stubby legs and a maniac grin running away from me while screaming, "i'm my own banana!"

Posted by: michele at February 14, 2003 09:43 AM

So sad about bananas. Will we have new, genetically modified bananas in 10 years? Is it just that bananas as we now know them will be gone, or bananas in general. Because no bananas.. I just don't know if I can handle that. They are practically the perfect fruit!

Posted by: Jolie at February 14, 2003 10:51 AM

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