Showing posts with label genome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genome. Show all posts

Monday, July 21, 2025

DNA ... the double helix ... THE HUMAN GENOME ...

When I was at school in the 1950s and 1960s, we'd heard of THE DOUBLE HELIX but it wasn't part of the school biology syllabus, Mendel's work on heredity patterns was taught because it was an important part of the development of better farming crops ... it took me some time to catch up with watson & crick's book ... and a bit of library research in the early 1970s always seemed to raise more questions than answers ... now, late in life, I know that one of life 's unwritten laws is that THERE WILL ALWAYS BE MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS ... I still haven't grasped all the means by which human physiology, anatomy, even psychology, are transmitted to new generations ... today i went to WIKIPEDIA and looked at their article on the HUMAN GENOME ... IT IS VERY GOOD ...














BUT THE ARTICLE STILL HAS TO RAISE NEW QUESTIONS AND HEARING THE NEW ANSWERS, AND EVEN THE INCOMPLETE ANSWERS, GIVES ME A LOT OF PLEASURE, AND ALWAYS WILL ...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome