Nugget #1

Yes, this is ANOTHER new feature here in good ol' bloggyland.

I love to learn, I love interesting facts, and I am at a great place where I get to learn interesting facts all the time! Man, I should be a walking gratitude tree. (^ wha???)

Because of this, I would like to share some of these interesting facts with you, because hey, if you don't want to learn - get the heck out of here. This always has been, and always will be a learning zone. (<--- but seriously, what is going on in my brain tonight?)

Today's nugget of knowledge is brought to you by molecular biology, aka my archnemesis.

My professor explained it as the "CAT vs SERENDIPITY Principle".

A long long time ago back when we humans were just learning about parts of the cell, there was a debate in the scientific community (and you know how THOSE can get) about what part in our cells contained our genetic information and was passed on to our offspring. Today, that's an easy-peasy answer (say it with me now.... deee enn eh) but back then it was as mysterious as the deep, dark sea. The consensus for a while was that it had to be the protein in our cells because, hello - protein is more complex! There are more letters - you can spell long, complicated words like "serendipity" out of the named types of proteins! What does dumb ol' DNA have? G, A, T, and C? Those are the stupidest letters I've ever heard of. The only things you can spell out of those letters are "cat" and "tag". Lame much?

So there you have it. Scientists later proved (obviously) that it is actually DNA that contains, you know, the key to LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.

It just goes to show that you can't judge a book by it's cover; or as I like to say, "You can't pass judgment on the genetic merit/storage capabilities of a microbiological substance based solely on the complexity of the words you can spell using its alphabetically-assigned nucleotide bases."