Recent content by BillTre

Shrunken head.

I have a friend (a molecular geneticist) who has an identical twin. The twin is married with children, but not him. He says his twin's kids are his virtual kids. I don't like the cousin half-this or that terminology. I'd rather have the calculated average inheritance or a drawn out lineage...

When i was a kid, I kept plenty of turtles. I have been fascinated by snapping turtles but never kept one. Alligator snappers are larger version found in more southerly areas. They are reputed to be able to bite a wood broom handle in two. Near where I lived in the Washington DC area, the...

I would say both. The physics aspects show how things work in detail, but an awareness of the biology shows why the physics is applied where it is in their biological manifestations and how it fulfills biological needs. Once the large scale (biological) process is identified, you can build...

Watch "The Little House of Horrors" dentist scene.

Larval zebrafish nervous system (larvae are post-hatch):

Here is an open access review article from Genetics on the unction of sevenless in Drosophila retinal development (from the Genetics Society of America. This is a well known (among those interested in fly neurobiological development) research story that stretches back about 50 years. Its...

Like who's on first, but different: