Xists engineered our genes
Posted by:: chip@pobox.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:03:19 -0000
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http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/evolution_of_the_X_chromosome
"Both X chromosomes have a gene called XIST that produces RNA that
coats the DNA of the chromosome, sheathing it in a layer that
inactivates most of the genes on it. There is a competition of an
undetermined nature in early development: both X chromosomes express
XIST, but eventually one wins out and shuts off the other. The
chromosome with the active XIST gene then produces more XIST
transcript, which again in some undetermined manner, affects only the
chromosome producing it. XIST creeps over the chromosome from an
inactivation center called XIC, eventually engulfing the whole thing."
Get your own XIST sheath! Only $30 from the Second Clench of the
Unreconstructed Crap Circle. Withquire Inin.
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"What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman
Posted by:: König Prüße, GfbAEV
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:01:56 GMT
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chip wrote:
>http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/evolution_of_the_X_chromosome
Wow! I forwarded it to a couple of people!
Posted by:: "Rev. Ivan Stang"
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:23:32 -0500
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In article <1140ug7nipeg917@news.supernews.com>, Chip Salzenberg
wrote:
> http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/evolution_of_the_X_chromosome
>
> "Both X chromosomes have a gene called XIST that produces RNA that
> coats the DNA of the chromosome, sheathing it in a layer that
> inactivates most of the genes on it. There is a competition of an
> undetermined nature in early development: both X chromosomes express
> XIST, but eventually one wins out and shuts off the other. The
> chromosome with the active XIST gene then produces more XIST
> transcript, which again in some undetermined manner, affects only the
> chromosome producing it. XIST creeps over the chromosome from an
> inactivation center called XIC, eventually engulfing the whole thing."
>
> Get your own XIST sheath! Only $30 from the Second Clench of the
> Unreconstructed Crap Circle. Withquire Inin.
Well SHEEEEE-IT!!!
Dang!
I be damn!
Thanks for pointing that out!
What can this MEAN!?!?
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Posted by:: "angelicusrex"
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:31:55 -0700
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If Xists engineered our genes they must be morons. Sort of like the ones in
that stupid Mel Gibson crop-circle movie who have the technology of space
flight and cloaking devices but can't find any clothes to wear and can't
open a simple door by turning a knob! Because they ARE knobs!
Whomever fucked with our genes was a crazed motherfucker and created a bunch
of fancy apes that can't get a handle on anything except how best to abuse
and murder one another. Must be a great show for someone!
A.R.
Posted by:: "Rev. Richard Skull"
Date: 23 Mar 2005 16:10:18 -0800
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a bunch
of fancy apes that can't get a handle on anything except how best to
abuse
and murder one another. Must be a great show for someone!>>
"from space, we thought of you as pleasent entertaining Monkeys. So
filthy and vile."
Kro-Bar, "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera."