I’m lost here.
sorry
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 7 months ago
blakeus12@hexbear.net 7 months ago
i see what you did there
THE_ANTIHERO@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Hehe
ItsAFake@lemmus.org 7 months ago
I’m never gonna escape loss.
taiyang@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m afraid you’re missing a chromosome, a tragic loss I’m afraid.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Yes. These are micrographs of chromosomes. Humans, along with nearly all complex animals, are diploid, meaning that our chromosomes occur in matched pairs (one from each parent). Humans should generally have 23 chromosome pairs. Having more or fewer than 46 total chromosomes is called aneuploidy.
Aneuploidy can occur in two main variants: monosomy (having only half of a chromosome pair) and polysomy (having three or more copies of a chromosome, instead of two). Because of how gene expression works, aneuploidy will fuck you up pretty bad. Basically, our bodies and the systems that make them up need a pretty strict balance of protein manufacture, which requires two copies (there are other factors like gene inactivation, etc but, they’re unnecessary for this).
This is so delicate that all monosomies in humans are fatal, except for and monsomy X/Y. All viable babies with monosomy X/Y are female and affected by Turner syndrome which causes significant physiological problems including heart and reproductive system abnormalities (sorry guys, our Y, by itself is incompatible with life). There are also 3 partial monosomies that are survivable: Cri du Chat (partial deletion of chromosome 5; causes physical and mental disabilities), 1p36 deletion syndrome (partial deletion of chromosome 1; causes physical and mental disabilities as well as seizures and/or epilepsy in ~50%), 17q12 microdeletion syndrome (deletion of HNF1B gene on chromosome 17; causes physical and mental disabilities as well as type 5 diabetes).
Polysomy is a bit more forgiving but still pretty rough. Polysomies of X and Y are common, relative to other polysomies, and generally result in physical and mental abnormalities. Polysomy 7 is linked with squamous cell carcinoma (cancer). Trisomy (three copies) 8 is linked with acute myeloid leukemia with tetrasomy and hexasomy 8 being linked with more severe disease. Trisomy 21 causes Down syndrome.
TL;DR: in the image, their Loss appears to be either a partial monosomy of chromosome 4 and possibly chromosomes 5-X/Y. They’re pretty much boned.
taiyang@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I remembered it vaguely from high school so I knew it was bad, just not the specifics! And yeah, maybe that’s the real story of loss: they had partial monosomy, resulting in cancer (or whatever the OG meme comic was ultimately about, haha)
perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Thanks fossilossque.
perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 months ago
48 hours later it hit me… I should have said:
Thanks lossilesque
Much better. I’m surprised nobody else called me on this.
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is this apoptosis?
xkforce@lemmy.world 7 months ago
2010 wants its memes back
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 months ago
I hate you
Shadow@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Eli5?
muffedtrims@lemmy.world 7 months ago
tacosplease@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I appreciate that and also don’t understand why the first one would be a popular comic. Who is that for? The minimalist line one is cool though.
Deebster@programming.dev 7 months ago
tophneal@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
This is loss
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 7 months ago
A comic artist created a poignant depiction of his wife’s miscarriage. It became a meme. Every time I see a reference to it, I imagine his pain.
Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
While I will agree that a miscarriage is tragedy and I feel for his wife, Tom Broccoli doesn’t deserve your sympathy, friend.
LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net 7 months ago
In the words of mother:
“And you can tell me that you’re sorry
But I don’t believe you, baby, like I did before
You’re not sorry (No no no no)
You’re not sorry (No no no no)"
comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 7 months ago
yeah k
nieceandtows@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Can someone explain? I’m at a loss here