tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post8583271874989146961..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: On the handedness of DNALarry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-18079913251626687522017-04-06T21:26:44.792-04:002017-04-06T21:26:44.792-04:00I know the paper you are referring to. I'm awa...I know the paper you are referring to. I'm aware that it didn't meet the rigorous testing that science demands. (Although, the lab animals DID have an effect to the glyphosate, but it wasn't replicated enough times to matter) That's why I don't ever cite that paper as a source. The world health organization just classified glyphosate as a carcinogen in the last year. Glyphosate is supposed to break down, yet it tests positive in prepared foods on the grocery store shelves (hope you don't eat a whole lot of Doritos and cheerios). Glyphosate is replacing glycine as an amino acid in proteins. I mean, this is real stuff. You can google my claims. They have passed peer review, so they are very legitimate. I am NOT aware of any studies done showing it DOESNT cause cancer though. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02536098940575002534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-19879767035958138222017-04-02T14:56:11.203-04:002017-04-02T14:56:11.203-04:00Actually, there are numerous experiments showing t...Actually, there are numerous experiments showing that Roundup doesn't cause cancer in lab animals. There's a really bad study out there pretending to show it does, but I read the actual paper and it was as bad as people said (8 rats per experimental treatment, just to mention the most obivious treatment). <br /><br />It's important to back up your statement with references that can be followed back to the experiments or epidemiological studies its based on. (You might be right, but there's so much misinformation being spread around about this that it's important to check it out.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-88539193183407110302017-04-02T12:06:04.091-04:002017-04-02T12:06:04.091-04:00Hold on there....Roundup is NOT deemed as safe. Ve...Hold on there....Roundup is NOT deemed as safe. Very little testing exists to prove that comment true. There is, however, information that STRONGLY correlates with roundup and diseases. We are talking about 98% plus, correlation. Almost assinign to deny it it, based on the correlation. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02536098940575002534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-57047828378599124412017-02-22T11:23:00.845-05:002017-02-22T11:23:00.845-05:00Finding the handedness of DNA is actually really e...Finding the handedness of DNA is actually really easy. <br /><br />When looking at a a drawing, stick out your right hand with your thumb up and and the rest of your fingers perpendicular and to the left of your thumb. Start closing your fingers to make a fist. Imagine that your figures are wrapping in between the base pairs and fitting exactly between the backbones. If they "fit", then the DNA is right-handed. Doing this with left-handed DNA, your fingers would "crush" the sides of the DNA and not fit on the ladder. Hope this helps!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11999275230814234344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-33106651618087349322015-03-25T17:32:43.016-04:002015-03-25T17:32:43.016-04:00Thanks indels for making my point.
Your point? In...<i>Thanks indels for making my point.</i><br /><br />Your point? In concluding that you actually made a point, you have, ironically, actually made quite the point. It just isn't what you think it is. But I'm sure you are more accustomed to blogs where that sort of rhetoric is considered brilliant and decisive.SRMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07299706694667706149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-40007642452979951332015-03-25T12:29:27.719-04:002015-03-25T12:29:27.719-04:00Everything is determined, the beginning as well as...<i>Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control.</i><br /><br />Sorry, but we've known for nearly 90 years now to a mathematical (un)certainty that our universe doesn't work that way. Before that time, we thought as we understood things to finer and finer levels we'd get to a point where in principle the future was calculable. But in 1927 we learned that at the lowest, most fundamental levels, the future - in fact, the present - is uncertain and fundamentally incalculable.judmarchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03111006189037693272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-46408363277041711682015-03-25T12:20:53.970-04:002015-03-25T12:20:53.970-04:00indel-mutants of the world recombine - you have no...indel-mutants of the world recombine - you have nothing to lose but some base pairssteve oberskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14067724166134333068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-90997404111529521162015-03-25T10:44:32.587-04:002015-03-25T10:44:32.587-04:00Another indel-mutant feels addressed....
Thanks i...Another indel-mutant feels addressed....<br /><br />Thanks indels for making my point.peerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13511262660273927645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-91010155471070026272015-03-25T10:18:48.510-04:002015-03-25T10:18:48.510-04:00"The point is that you guys really aren't...<i>"The point is that you guys really aren't aware of the data of the 1000 genomes project..."</i><br /><br />Genomes that clearly and unambiguously show that atheists have deletions that won't let them fall for the bullshit written by some Peer Terborg IDiot.<br /><br />It's written in ACTGs!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-26078688199514149692015-03-25T09:38:40.095-04:002015-03-25T09:38:40.095-04:00I took the question to mean if the structure were ...I took the question to mean if the structure were of opposite chirality, not just turning around in the opposite helix. Mikkel Rumraket Rasmussenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670550711237457368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-70004605668509044922015-03-25T09:13:05.846-04:002015-03-25T09:13:05.846-04:00The point is that you guys really aren't aware...The point is that you guys really aren't aware of the data of the 1000 genomes project... peerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13511262660273927645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-35453485383048922632015-03-25T09:03:38.652-04:002015-03-25T09:03:38.652-04:00And immediately a deletion-mutant jumps in to proo...And immediately a deletion-mutant jumps in to proof my case....peerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13511262660273927645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-16360068088677647812015-03-25T08:58:42.326-04:002015-03-25T08:58:42.326-04:00Hey Peer,
I understand that "the recombinati...Hey Peer,<br /><br />I understand that "the recombinations taken place in the gametes of [your] parents and forbares(sic)" made you a fucking idiot and that you can't control this.<br /><br />But I forgive you.<br />steve oberskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14067724166134333068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-30588254582655417332015-03-25T08:01:41.216-04:002015-03-25T08:01:41.216-04:00From the comments it usually gets immediately clea...From the comments it usually gets immediately clear we deal with (extremist) atheist or theist. But thats not a judgement, just a conclusion. <br /><br />They may have lost the god-sensing part of the genome, would be may guess, and that makes it forgiveable.<br /><br /> As you know, "Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” <br /><br />Including the recombinations taken place in the gametes of their parents and forbares. You can'rt control them. To know that is to understand that, and to understand all is to forgive all.peerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13511262660273927645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-35085870772672844872015-03-24T16:39:40.440-04:002015-03-24T16:39:40.440-04:00Twisting the DNA as suggested by the circular arro...Twisting the DNA as suggested by the circular arrows would produce a left-handed DNA. Contrary to the illustration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-62559456465557238002015-03-24T09:08:37.163-04:002015-03-24T09:08:37.163-04:00In this case I will judge the book by more than it...In this case I will judge the book by more than its cover but the cover is relevant.<br /><br />BTW, do you think it's okay to judge people by the comments they make on my blog? Just askin'.Larry Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-63971451673164617412015-03-24T09:04:32.126-04:002015-03-24T09:04:32.126-04:00@Peer Terborg
Are you seriously suggesting that I...@Peer Terborg<br /><br />Are you seriously suggesting that I don't the structure of transcription bubbles and supercoiling as well as you do?Larry Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-4228553784946436922015-03-24T08:22:35.702-04:002015-03-24T08:22:35.702-04:00Z-DNA is possibly beyond the bubble and considerin...Z-DNA is possibly beyond the bubble and considering the turns...it is just recoiling again ?<br /><br />In sum: judging a book by the cover is immature nitpicking. peerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13511262660273927645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-90117842966300071532015-03-24T07:58:07.926-04:002015-03-24T07:58:07.926-04:00Nice try, to propose that the artist was being so ...Nice try, to propose that the artist was being so accurate, yet forgot to draw in the transcription bubble and included 3x too many base pairs per turn.SRMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07299706694667706149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-42446285870699038562015-03-24T07:44:40.233-04:002015-03-24T07:44:40.233-04:00
The drawing might be DNA in the process of activ...<br /><br />The drawing might be DNA in the process of active transcription.<br /><br />It think it is rather immature to judge a book by the Z-DNA cover, while Moran does not even seem to realize that these structures form all the time during active transcription supercoiling-uncoiling.<br />peerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13511262660273927645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-89462492626374421362015-03-23T18:08:51.522-04:002015-03-23T18:08:51.522-04:00Good point. My bad. I'd forgotten that I made ...Good point. My bad. I'd forgotten that I made the effort to depict it correctly and then I miscounted when I wrote the post.<br /><br />I feel stupid. (Not the first time.)Larry Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-50583720157933122132015-03-23T17:07:23.552-04:002015-03-23T17:07:23.552-04:00"I've deliberately drawn it with only six..."I've deliberately drawn it with only six or seven base pairs per turn instead of the normal 10-11 base pairs per turn because it's easier to see the shape of the helix."<br />In fact, the cartoon on the right is correct. There are 10 base pairs per Compete 360° twist of the helix, or five per half-twist, just as shown.john kyrkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16715774389966983326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-31933791843734733832015-03-23T06:31:11.954-04:002015-03-23T06:31:11.954-04:00Sorry, the link to the third DNA model of the Seat...Sorry, the link to the third DNA model of the Seattle World's Fair 1962 was wrong it should have been <a href="http://thefinchandpea.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/img_3438.jpg?w=500" rel="nofollow">http://thefinchandpea.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/img_3438.jpg?w=500</a>SPARChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09563722742249547887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-38616582942901028352015-03-23T03:53:23.886-04:002015-03-23T03:53:23.886-04:00I suspect that most of the people who claim that R...I suspect that most of the people who claim that Roundup is carcinogenic know nothing about biochemistry, and nothing about the causes of cancer, and don't know what Roundup is. Although there is always the possibility that one is wrong, I'd be surprised if <i>N</i>-(phosphonomethyl)glycine were carcinogenic, or even significantly toxic for organisms that don't have the shikimate pathway.Athel Cornish-Bowdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05993242236208061356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-23088357492889818732015-03-23T03:45:57.160-04:002015-03-23T03:45:57.160-04:00Yes. The new link works fine. For some reason the ...Yes. The new link works fine. For some reason the post I thought was missing was indeed missing a few minutes ago, but now it is there, so I posted the same thing twice. Athel Cornish-Bowdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05993242236208061356noreply@blogger.com