7/7/2004: Blue roses

LabRat · 07-08-2004, 09:49 AM

[quote=Undertoad I have no clue what that exactly entails [/QUOTE]

jerking hand in the air and practically falling out of chair: OOH OOH, I know this one!!

i do this on a regular basis, the recombinant DNA stuff...except in animal cells not plants.

the generic version is taking a gene of interest from one organism, and putting it in the cells of another. in this example they took the dna that codes for making the blue pigment (the gene) out of flower A and put it in flower B's cells, so that flower B now makes it like it would have it's own pigment.

it's sort of like word processing where you just cut a sentance out of one book and paste it in another, but on a different scale. the language is the same, so the reader (the cells protein making machinery) just goes on translating the new stuff with the old (as if you were reading a paragraph with the new sentance inserted). because dna is dna is dna, the second organism doesn't 'know' that this new gene isn't one of it's own and just goes about tranlating it like all the rest if it's own genes. like a book though, you have to have the new word (or gene) be in context with the rest of the story or it won't make any sense (or, the new protein won't be made or expressed properly in the new organism). this is what takes so long, trying to get the new word (gene) to make sense (be properly translated into a good protein) with the rest of the story (the rest of the proteins in the organism).

there will be a quiz later, i hope you took notes

Beestie · 07-08-2004, 10:01 AM

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because dna is dna is dna, the second organism doesn't 'know' that this new gene isn't one of it's own and just goes about tranlating it like all the rest if it's own genes.

Isn't that how aids works? I heard it "writes itself" into the DNA and all subsequent RNA has the aids definition built in. I never knew what that meant/how that worked until your explanation (assuming I read it right).

Guess · 07-08-2004, 01:40 PM

i hate how all these pictures of new technology always show a smiling japanese girl! its so annoying!

perth · 07-08-2004, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Guess

i hate how all these pictures of new technology always show a smiling japanese girl! its so annoying!

Ssssh! You'll ruin it for the rest of us!

Beestie · 07-16-2004, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Guess

i hate how all these pictures of new technology always show a smiling japanese girl! its so annoying!

So I'm browsing Mike's List and what do I find?...

Ho, Hum. Another 3-Megapixel Camera Phone

Samsung launched this 3-megapixel camera phone, called the SPH-2300, Sunday [July 11, 2004]. Unlike other camera phones, this one looks as much like a camera as does like a phone. (Girl with acne not included.) Casio shipped its 3-megapixel camera phone last month.

glatt · 07-16-2004, 04:37 PM

OK. So how long does it take to e-mail a 3 megapixel image over the cell phone? Like a day or something? Or are they improving the infrastructure too?

Or am I just not getting it? Are you supposed to take it home and put the card in your card reader?

07-08-2004, 01:40 PM	#3
Guess What's my name? Guess Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 69	i hate how all these pictures of new technology always show a smiling japanese girl! its so annoying! __________________ "Earth laughs in flowers" ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

07-08-2004, 09:49 AM	#1
LabRat twatfaced two legged bumhole Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,143	[quote=Undertoad I have no clue what that exactly entails [/QUOTE] jerking hand in the air and practically falling out of chair: OOH OOH, I know this one!! i do this on a regular basis, the recombinant DNA stuff...except in animal cells not plants. the generic version is taking a gene of interest from one organism, and putting it in the cells of another. in this example they took the dna that codes for making the blue pigment (the gene) out of flower A and put it in flower B's cells, so that flower B now makes it like it would have it's own pigment. it's sort of like word processing where you just cut a sentance out of one book and paste it in another, but on a different scale. the language is the same, so the reader (the cells protein making machinery) just goes on translating the new stuff with the old (as if you were reading a paragraph with the new sentance inserted). because dna is dna is dna, the second organism doesn't 'know' that this new gene isn't one of it's own and just goes about tranlating it like all the rest if it's own genes. like a book though, you have to have the new word (or gene) be in context with the rest of the story or it won't make any sense (or, the new protein won't be made or expressed properly in the new organism). this is what takes so long, trying to get the new word (gene) to make sense (be properly translated into a good protein) with the rest of the story (the rest of the proteins in the organism). there will be a quiz later, i hope you took notes

07-16-2004, 04:37 PM	#6
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	OK. So how long does it take to e-mail a 3 megapixel image over the cell phone? Like a day or something? Or are they improving the infrastructure too? Or am I just not getting it? Are you supposed to take it home and put the card in your card reader?

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