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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Mart 'n' Al on Tuesday 13 March 18 16:46 GMT (UK)
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I don't know if these two DNA articles in today's Daily Mail should be praised for bring the awareness of DNA to a wider public or criticised for possibly trivialising the subject.
Would YOU take a DNA test to find the ideal flatmate?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5490393/Spare-Rooms-offering-DNA-testing-perfect-flatmate.html
Take saliva test to work out your IQ
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5491541/Intelligence-genes-promote-old-age.html
Martin
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Well, DNA is "on trend" :-X :-X :-X
Alternatively, there was the story of a Liverpool radio quiz show, and one of the contestants obviously didn't know the answer so he kept asking "Give us a clue, Billy, give us a clue".
The mind boggles :-* :-*
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May I ask a question please.
Why do people insist on posting posts about DNA subjects in the Common room when we specifically have a section (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/ancestral-family-tree-dna-testing/ ) for DNA related posts. It doesn't make sense to me.
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My original posting was a bit too light-hearted, off-topic and trivial for such a serious discussion area. My choice. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps I was right.
Martin
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My original posting was a bit too light-hearted, off-topic and trivial for such a serious discussion area. My choice. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps I was right.
Martin
Oh well ..........
Anyway here's another link for you then about how Astronaut Scott Kelly now has different DNA to his identical twin brother after spending just a year in space
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5494589/Astronaut-Scott-Kellys-DNA-permanently-changed-space.html#ixzz59egJxD9g
Food for thought maybe before takung an ancestry DNA test and their wild claims .......
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I often wonder what would be the effect if the classic 'double-helix ' of DNA was straightened out. What does the helix achieve? Rigidity? Why double and not single or triple? I do too much wondering. What if it spiralled the other way?
Martin
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So would the astronaut's ethnicity now include a percentage of Martian or Lunar? Or are there too few Martians/moon people in the database to call that percentage anything other than"unknown"?
I jest 😁
Out of interest do anc even admit to an unknown category?
Jane :-)
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Martin, if it spiralled the other way it would be laevo dna if my school chemistry serves me correct.
Or is that just the "handing" of the molecule?
Jane :-)
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Thanks Jane, I scraped a Chemistry O-level before the man in the street had even heard of DNA. I shall follow up your info.
(Said the right-handed honeysuckle to the left-handed bindweed.)
Martin