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[framlingem]

You are mRNA. You're brilliant, full of important,
interesting information and you're a great
friend to the people you care about. You may
have sides to you that no one understands. But
while you understand more than most people,
you're only half-there most of the time.


Which Biological Molecule Are You?
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i am extremely intelligent and very wise. i think logically and rhetorically in order to get problems solved. if i'm not mad now, i'm getting very close.

how mad are you?

this quiz was made by piksy

Comments

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

Messenger RNA. It's the copy of a part of the DNA that takes the "message" to other parts of the cell.

WOW! THE ENGLISH MAJOR KNOWS SOMETHING SCIENTIFIC!!! ::GASP!::

-Me

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Wow! That the science-as-a-hobby-buff didn't, even!

Wow!

:D

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well, you have to understand that while I always plead "I'm an English major, so I'm stupid about these things!" I'm also a sci-fi fan... and some of that, at least, sprung from a curiosity in the sciences, even if I don't have the patience to *be* the scientist.

I also just happened to remember that from 10th grade bio. There are so damn many things I don't remember, but *that* I chose eto remember. ::snerk:: Go fig.

-Me

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

I knew what RNA was (Thank you Peter Watts and his Starfish books)...

Amazing what we learn from Sci-fi, isn't it? I couldn't do basic mechanics to save my life in high school, but I wrote a paper on particle physics and their applications in using solar sails for interplanetary travel. *g*

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

DEEP SPACE NINE!!!!

::cough::

But yeah, I was obsessed with cloning in HS. I was using ST terms to descibe it too. ::facepalm::

-Me

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

I learrned solar sails from Clarke :)

See, Star Trek is not always reliable when it comes to science fact :p Clarke and Heinlein are, and Robinson (Spider AND Kim), and certainly Sheffield.

[ladyshrew.livejournal.com]

LOL! No, it really isn't, but they're great at coming up with wacked out theories.

And, at any rate, replicative fading is an actual worry in terms of "real" science, so I could steal terms that ST used. ;-)

-Me

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

This is true.

mRNA

[lifelongmanic.livejournal.com]

Well, I WAS gonna post the answer and be all smart, but someone beat me to it. Em, don't you remember anything from sec 3 bio? Well..I had Ms Calderone and so everything has been beaten into my head so that I'll never forget it. So yeah...mRNA is messenger RNA. Like your friend said.

Re: mRNA

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

We didn't do RNA in sec. 3 -we just stuck to DNA. Never learned about it!

mRNA is...

[(Anonymous)]

mRNA is the template used to translate genetic information (on DNA) into proteins...that's all I know right now, I have to go study it more.

From,

Guess who?

Re: mRNA is...

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Er... I'm guessing El Tiffo (which really should be La Tiffa, all things considered).

That you, Tiff?