Anyways, Class was good today. In my research methods class we picked out our groups for our project. In this class we work on a research project all semester then present it during finals week. It gets us ready to do the same project by ourselves in another class (which I am taking next fall). Then I had genetics, which is going to be one of my favorite classes, I think. Our professor told us a really interesting fact I thought I would share. (I'm a nerd so I think this is really cool!)
Think of the depth of a dime, which is 5 mm thick. 200 nuclei stacked on top of each other would be the same height. Inside of each nuclei is 46 chromosomes. If you took those chromosomes and put one on top of the other that would be 2 meters tall. So, 2 meters of DNA is in every nucleus. Isn't that crazy?!?! That's not even the best part. There are 10^13 (ten with 13 zeros behind it) cells in a human being. Which means 2x10^13 meters of DNA. That is long enough to go from the earth to the sun and back about 75 times. Crazy huh??
Okay, so enough of being a nerd. I had to be at work at 4. Around 4:30 my roommate text me and said that a drunk guy, who had just been peeing in the front of our apartment complex, had just smashed into a truck that is two car port spaces away from mine. If I would have been home it would have been bye bye maxy (my car). God was definitely looking out for me. Here is a picture, it doesn't really do it justice though.
peace.
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