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Apr. 7th, 2011 11:06 pmToday in molecular genetics class, we were talking about transposed genes and the havoc they can raise on normal body segmentation. After showing us a couple of mutant frog embryos, my prof put up a slide with something labelled Sonic Hedgehog gene.
And I sat up and said, wait, what? but no-one else did (because I am in a class of thirteen hundred 19 year olds, plus me, plus one other person over the age of 25), and the prof didn't elaborate, so I had to wait until I got home to discover that, in fact, they named the gene after the Sega video game character.
Which is awesome.
(And yes, the mutated form makes fruit flies look hedgehog-y, which is why it's called that. They don't look more sonic, though.)
DO THIS MORE, SCIENTISTS. It makes it a lot easier for me to remember stuff. Where's the Donkey Kong gene?
And I sat up and said, wait, what? but no-one else did (because I am in a class of thirteen hundred 19 year olds, plus me, plus one other person over the age of 25), and the prof didn't elaborate, so I had to wait until I got home to discover that, in fact, they named the gene after the Sega video game character.
Which is awesome.
(And yes, the mutated form makes fruit flies look hedgehog-y, which is why it's called that. They don't look more sonic, though.)
DO THIS MORE, SCIENTISTS. It makes it a lot easier for me to remember stuff. Where's the Donkey Kong gene?