We are all mutants

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ^ | June 12, 2011 | Unknown

[decimon]

That's Frederick Sanger.

I'm American so I don't care who paid for this.

[decimon]

Organically grown ping.

[freedumb2003]

We're all MUTANTS!

[BwanaNdege]

“We’re all MUTANTS!”

Oh, NO!

I could handle learning Ninja, but the turtle thingy...

Don’t know that I could get used to a diet of lettuce & flies....

[SunkenCiv]

"Each one of us receives approximately 60 new mutations in our genome from our parents."

Great-great-great-great-grandparents, down to you. Most people have 23 chromosome pairs, which means that at least 18 of the gggg-gr generation didn't pass any of their genome to you, assuming there are no duplicates for that generations (because of criss-crossing lines of descent). The cell over the first 46 is just an illustration, not to show which ones were and were not, since there's (probably, usually) no way to know exactly.

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46

18

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[SunkenCiv]

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[eclecticEel]

So, when will my superpowers start kicking in?

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Does this mean we can tell Magneto to shut up?

[freedumb2003]

>>So, when will my superpowers start kicking in?<<

Probably at the most inopportune time, like on your 1st date or honeymoon or during your finals test in Chemistry.

[freedumb2003]

That is a singularly excellent piece of HTML there SCiv!

[bigheadfred]

We are all mutants

This is really good. Now I have SCIENTIFIC PROOF for all those people who make fun of my third arm. Now if I just hadn't shown them my rash...

[WKTimpco]

I thought all genetic variation
was based on mutation!

[Tanniker Smith]

It's not a mutation. It's an alternative lifestyle.
Get your facts straight.

[Tanniker Smith]

... so to speak.

[TheOldLady]

Yeah, and it’s your best arm, too.

I thought I gave you some balm for the rash. Don’t tell me you didn’t use it...

[SunkenCiv]

:’) It’s nice to be appreciated in my own time. ;’)

The original was larger, but at some point the free hosting (probably the racists at TinyPic) deleted it.

[SunkenCiv]

They may *still* make fun of it, of course...

[SunkenCiv]

Whoops. Wrong HTML masterpiece reply. (blush) There's also this version:

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ggggGrand	gggGrand	ggGrand	gGrand	Grand	parents	YOU

[freedumb2003]

Both of them are great!

HTML tables are a PITA!! :)

But I started back when the only HTML editor was Notepad, so at least I can do them “longhand” in a pinch.

And the graph explains that funny 3rd arm I have growing from the back of my head. It doesn’t quite explain the eyeball on the index finger on that arm, though...

[SunkenCiv]

If we can wear the mask and cape, yes.