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You’re Totally My Genotype:
💓Your #genotype is your entire genetic makeup
💓#Genotyping is determining which DNA variants you possess
💓Important to know your genotype when it comes to #conception because there may be compatibility issues and devastating effects
#BetaGlobin
Golf Balls, Pebbles, Sand, Beer:
⛳️Without taking care of the golf balls, the important things, you’re not living life to the fullest
⛳️The golf balls come first, the pebbles second, and the rest is just sand
⛳️There is always time to catch up with a friend
⛳️Remember the jar
How Organs Shift During Pregnancy:
🤰During the ~40 weeks of pregnancy, a woman’s body undergoes significant #changes
🤰As the fetus grows it occupies more space
🤰The mother is not just expanding outward, her internal organs are also put under a significant amount of pressure
Restoring Beauty:
🦅Beauty, an American bald eagle, was shot in the head and consequently lost the top half of her beak
🦅Beaks are essential for preening feathers and feeding
🦅Created a prosthetic beak from a nylon-based polymer using #3D printing technology
#BeakProsthesis
L-Methamphetamine:
👥Illegal in the #mirror
👥Methamphetamine has a #chiral center and exists as 2 #enantiomers (mirror images of one another)
👥L-methamphetamine is an ingredient in Vicks Vapor Inhalers
👥Its mirror image (D-methamphetamine) is a Class A illegal drug #Meth
Ovoviviparous:
🥚Embryos develop inside eggs that are retained within the mother's body until they are ready to hatch
🥚Babies are born inside their own amniotic sac, which they must tear out of in order to take their first breath
🥚Rattlesnakes and boas give birth this way
95-Year-Old Veteran Shows Little Boy How To Be Brave:
📌A 95-year-old veteran is making waves for #motivating a frightened youngster to jump into a pool, by diving in himself
📌#Fear cuts deeper than swords
📌You can, you should, and if you’re #brave enough to start, you will
Know Your Lab:
🧬Interpretation of genetic test results differs frequently between labs
🧬Study finds that you have a 67% chance that your genetic test results will be interpreted #DIFFERENTLY by two different labs
🧬Be proactive
#Genomics
#RealDeal
👉https://t.co/pT2rqM4lcb
An Unlikely Delicacy:
🍄The basket #stinkhorn
🍄Its cap is covered by a slimy, smelly, sticky substance called the #gleba
🍄That’s how flies like it
🍄They’re attracted to the rotten #smell of the spore-containing gleba and inadvertently help the stinkhorn disperse its spores
Rolling Iceberg:
❄️The force of #gravity makes an iceberg roll, causing it to shift from instability to stability
❄️The iceberg will twist in the water until it finds a stable position, with most of its bulk at the bottom
❄️This roll releases #energy
👉https://t.co/GBtMlMs70z