Science Stuff
Posted By Caulimovirus on March 18, 2007
“Things That Make You Go M’Hay!”
.: My sister’s textbook, Molecular Biology of the Gene, 5th edition, sports this sexy cover:
.: Those of you who are biologically-inclined will have to squint to see what’s wrong, since this was the largest picture I could find. What you can clearly see, though, should be enough: an uncoiled chromosome . . . with ribosomes attached to it . . . making proteins.
.: Yikes.
.: By the way, that Watson guy on the cover? He’s the one on the left.
.: In an unrelated science topic, my sister pointed me to the Calbiochem Interactive Signaling Pathways website. There’s lots of geeky stuff there, like this pathway poster for Alzheimer’s Disease:
.: Now, that picture’s cool enough, but if you go to the website, they will actually send you a free poster! Not just for the Alzheimer’s Disease pathway, but for lots of other things too:
AKT/Protein Kinase B
Alzheimer’s Disease
Angiogenesis
Apoptosis
Checkpoint Signaling and DNA Repair
Cytokine Network
GSK-3 Signaling
MAPK Family
mTOR
NF-kB
Nitric Oxide
p53
PKA Activation
Protein Kinase
Protein Tyrosine Kinase Related Pathways
Protein Kinase C
Ubiquitin-Proteasome
.: Collect them all!
Oh I have. You should come to the house some time and see how I’ve decorated my walls. In fact, I’ve got one placed next to the toliet so that perhaps I may learn what it actually says.
There isn’t enough resolution for me to tell, but are you sure it’s a mistake? It looks more like a cartoon of transcription to me, where the big proteins are RNA polymerase spinning out RNA strands, not ribosomes making proteins.
it also looks more like rna polymerase for me……
The cover has the genome with RNA Polymerase complexes transcribing mRNA’s from 6 different genes.