Don't Stump the Layman: Science Addition

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pout

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You should have known better. Punnetts are really the lowest form of humor.
d&r

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And cmyk, you’re throwing a no-hitter again. You’re on fire tonight, sir.

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Answer 1: 1/8. Go to this nifty Punnett square calcuator to verify. But I did it by hand first! Of course if you’re really confident with your math, you can just multiply the allele probabilities.

Answer 2: Close. The cochlea is a sound transducer; it converts pressure waves into action potentials. This is performed by vibrations in the basilar membrane, which displace stereocilia in hair cells, affecting the electrostatic potential across the cell membrane of these cells, which causes them to release neurotransmitter to cells that make up the auditory nerve.

Asked: 6
Right: 1
Wrong: 5
Total: -4

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  1. Chlorophyll?
  2. No idea.
  3. Occipital, Frontal, Hippocampus, and Olfactory? gulp
  4. Obviously part of the brain, but I do not know its function.
  5. No clue. Damn, I really thought I’d do better at biology. :sigh:
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I take my diagrams and I nuke them from orbit!

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Only if your brain is in your ovary. :slight_smile:

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HA! (I was thinking of the corpus callosum :smack: )

I take someone’s ovaries, and I nuke them from orbit.

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Let’s go a little easier. I provide the scientific names for the most important models in developmental biology. You tell me what each one is…

  1. Caenorhabditis elegans
  2. Drosophila melanogaster
  3. Xenopus laevis
  4. Danio rerio
  5. Gallus gallus
  6. Mus musculus

ETA: That ends up not being very easy.

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Methinks you came into the lions’ den (not the Detroit football Lions, mind you) and are biting off more than you could chew.

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Yeh, but that’s a lose-lose in this gam–oh, I see what you’re getting at.

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How was I to know only the biologists where here today? I’m my own worst enemy. AND I’M LOVING IT!

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Did I mention I was a laymen, with no formal study? :weeps:

  1. Holy
  2. fucking
  3. shit.
  4. No
  5. Idea.
  6. Muscles?
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nameless, I think I was doing better with your “harder questions”. At least I was in the ballpark on some. :slight_smile:

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Italicizing mine.

You mean *were * here today. The grammar Nazis are also on the prowl.

Als, you’re singular (at least you were last I saw you, so you’re a “layman”, not “laymen”).

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Oh dear god, I’m in deep! They were typos, I swears! Someone throw me a line!

ETA: Ahh HA! “Als” is not a word, and two commas in a row are not grammatically correct. Truce?

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That’s blamed on my fat fingers and Gaudere’s Law. I’m covered. You’re not.

My girlfriend says I need a typing wand.

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Yeah, but you missed the one in the title, so you lose a point. :wink:

ETA: D’oh! Wait a minute…was that a pun? I’m humbled.

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Hmm, I do have rather effeminate hands. DAMN YOU LOUNE!

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To cure that, you must wrestle down an 8-point buck and beat it down with your erect penis.

After that, prepare the buck with a 3 inch paring knife.
Then, and not a moment sooner, we can stop calling your hands effeminate.