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Survival of the Sickest Dr. Sharon Moalem. Quotable quotes and funny thoughts as read by Mrs. O’Rourke. What does this. And this have to do with?. Who is missing from the picture?. Dicrocoelium dentricum : lancet liver fluke.
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Survival of the SickestDr. Sharon Moalem Quotable quotes and funny thoughts as read by Mrs. O’Rourke
Dicrocoeliumdentricum : lancet liver fluke Migration of developing flukes in the host liver provokes an intense inflammatory reaction with severe liver damage.
On microbes and men “ At the end of the day, every living thing- Bacteria, protozoa, lions, tigers, bears and your baby brother- shares two hardwired imperatives: Survive. Reproduce.”
How about This guy And this kiss
On sexual attraction and disease “Why is the scent of someone you find attractive so alluring? …..It’s often a sign that you have dissimilar immune systems, which will give your children wider immunity than either of their parents”
“You’re outnumbered in your own home” • An Adult human contains ten times as many “foreign” microbial cells as mammalian cells. • 1,000 different types of microbes • Weighing about 3 pounds • Numbering between 10 – 100 trillion • Collectively they contain 100 times as many genes as your own genome.
OK how about this one Lose the finger Spare the liver
Try this one.. How do you go from this to this?
On epigenetics “DNA is destiny-until you get out the old methyl Magic Marker and start rewriting”
“This wasn’t nature versus nurture this was nature and nurture.”
“Something as simple as parental grooming was changing the expression of a living animal’s code.” So what does that mean for humans?
Identical Twin Study • One sister with Breast Cancer , one without…. • So how do we demethylate a gene?
Like Mutation “Methylation is neither good nor bad on its own- it all depends on what genes are being turned on and what genes are being turned off and for what reason”
What does This have to do with This?
Ok I could keep going but Tonight I want you to give it a try. Any topic one or two slides. See what you can do. Don’t get crazy! This should take 15 min. choose an idea that really caught your attention and bring it to us tomorrow. Email it to me at jennifer.orourke@rtsd.org Subject: AP Bio /your name