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Mom :Gotta eat your carrots! Little Me: Why? Mom: They are good for your eyes. You've never seen a rabbit wearing glasses! Little Me: Never known a rabbit who can read, either. Hope your cold goes away soon
Somehow this was a class in organic electronics and quite refreshing. But I like spectrometers so my framing is a bit skewed. Amazing what we can know. Thank you
Also guanosine triphosphate seems like a small enough molecule that calling it a protein seems strange to me. It’s basically adenosine triphosphate with guanine instead of adenine. What’s cool about this is guanosine and adenosine are also two of the nucleotides in RNA and DNA co-opted for other chemical processes. I just didn’t think of phosphate-linked nucleosides as “proteins” before.
Hey PZ, just noticed that you mentioned playing No Man's Sky in one of your older videos. If you have the chance, try play this game in VR, definitely try it. I am playing this on STEAM / PCVR with a Quest 2 and Pico 4 Headset and this is truly from another dimension, since you can really see and feel the scale, which is simply not possible on a flatescreen monitor.
In theory several lineages may have "invented" photoreceptors but at the end of the Ediacaran it is my understanding there was only one lineage with more "advanced" eye-like organs.
With the new audio setup you have a voice of an angel. Molecular biology usually goes over my head, but this I could follow. Which probably means you simplified it a whole lot. Looking forward (pun intended) for more videos on this topic.
