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Monday, September 29, 2008

garden karyotype

it looks like a healthy garden

here is the karyotype of a human female for comparison.

or a male with trisomy 21 (downs syndrome)

5 comments:

Bonita said...

I think I see some trisomy....second tomato to the left...haha.

smoothdave said...

Is this scientist humor?

Anonymous said...

It is truly amazing that human chromosomes are already numbered like that! If that doesn’t just prove intelligent design, I don’t know what will. And just out of curiosity, what power of magnification do you need to subject the karyotype to before the numbers come into focus?

dwstaple said...

it isn't that you need a particularly strong magnification to see the numbers, you just need a specific kind of dye (graptalalamine blue).

Anonymous said...

I am not sure if I agree with your conclusion. The karyotype shown is obviously not a typical example of the wild type E. garden I would suggest you look at pair #4 again and see if it shows the telltale signs of a deletion sequence in the GM E.garden. Of course the problem with this mutation is the random gender changes often associated with any H.sapien consumers. Good luck