Just today, I happen to have looked into what exactly keratin is. (The stuff that makes up your hair and finger nails.) It’s solid protein, made all the more solid (and all the less water-soluble) by the presence of the sulfer-containing amino acid cysteine. And fingernails have more of it than hair. Who knew?
DNA->Rna->Protein
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TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
snoons@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Me, I did, I knew that! It’s why I try to merely bury my obscenely rich murder victims instead of incinerating them, as it’s really quite stinky. Ewww :(
iatenine@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Well that’s a confession if I’ve ever heard one
Hey, everybody: THIS PERSON IS RICH!
palmtrees2309@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
FIR mentioned Absolute Cinema
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Let’s replicate!”
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Prion is paranoid
cadmiumsandbox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
hurray sab tv show mention
sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
They released 440 episodes in two years? 😮
www.imdb.com/title/tt2263530/
cadmiumsandbox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
its a 5 days a week soap opera