I'm bad at focusing.

I went back through my Bio 115 (Advanced Eukaryotic Molecular Biology) notes looking for some info on double-stranded break repair for a classmate in my current Advanced Eukaryotic Molecular Biology class (ahhh, the glories of taking the same class twice at different universities... the second university thinks you're so smart...), and I found a review sheet with a bunch of hilarious quotes on it.

Here are some of them, from March of 2005 straight to you:

"If you use the yeast system for aging, you have to ask yourself, what does an old yeast look like anyway? Even though I sort of scoff at old yeast I think you have to take them seriously." --prof

"...where there's lots of cleavage, that's naked DNA. ...120 naked nucleotides flapping in the breeze..." --prof

"Are we more complex than a fly or a worm? Or are we just bigger? I think about that a lot. I think what really separates us, besides the fact that flies can't get tattoos, is our nervous system." --prof

"Mice are fucked up. We mutated the shit out of them." --classmate

"It's that part of the chromosome where microtubules are gonna reach out and touch it." --prof

"If you want to go from some boring little yeast into some clever little fruit fly..." --prof (gee, I wonder what his model organism was?)

"If you inject it into a bunny rabbit..." --prof

"Although, then it kills the cell, so that's not very nice at all." --prof

"homologous recombination machinery feels up the DNA and repairs it" --my personal notes, scrawled in a margin. And yes, this is how I remember everything. You should hear my analogy for nuclear export. It involves bouncers.

And my personal favorite:
"God arranged it this way so I could put it on your test." --prof


We are 46% retrovirus.