Have you
ever lain in bed at night, unable to sleep because your brain insisted on
wrestling with the eternal, vital question, to wit “How can you stuff a human
DNA molecule that is six feet long into the nucleus of a single cell”? Probably not too often. Well, Dr. Collins gives you a colorful hint,
here:
Of course,
now you have to cope with the equally important conundrum: how in hell does the copying mechanism find
the right spot to do its job, in all that knotted-up, colorful mess?
There’s lots
we don’t know – and, I suspect, lots we will never know.
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