Reading Day!

[kateorman]

Well, reading, doing my tax, and struggling pathetically with the housework day.

Right now I'm reading up on human pigmentation genetics for cluelessch1x0r. I want to be able to convert the technical stuff into English, but I'm not sure how much jargon I can get away with. So here's a straw poll:

Poll Skience jargonIn other news, I'm even more convinced that scientists would be

Comments

[ryo_chan]

(well, it did say respond)

If I've gotten this right, a gene that is either in the wrong place or miscoded (replication error/mutation) has caused an error so the body can not repond to the effects of its regulatory system (hormones) since they cannot "see" the hormone correctly - the hormone 'key' not fitting the receptor 'lock' since said lock has been built wrong.

Goddess this is easier to conceptualise than explain, plus I'm probably wrong ^_^;

[ryo_chan]

I should have added genes are the things that build the receptors ^^;

[kateorman]

Spot on! :-)

Yeah, it is easier to describe using a diagram; maybe I'll do that.

Well, it made sense _inside_ my head. Honest.

[outsdr]

"If I told you a variant gene inactivated the receptor for a hormone, you would respond:"

"I basically understand that. To prove it, I'll leave a comment with an interpretation in plain English."

Ok. If genetics are the code that is used to describe how a person is constructed, and some of that code gets corrupted in some way (This would prolly need further explanation going into random mutations and recessive genes and other etc's) it can cause a corruption in the construction of a person.

A hormone is a chemical that the body creates to tell other parts of the body to do certain things at certain times, kind of like a person might drink coffee in the morning to wake up. The hormone has a specific place it goes, which is the receptor- like coffee goes in a persons mouth (Assuming you're not Janet Jackson).

So, along comes this corrupted code, which has prevented the person from opening their mouth and drinking their coffee.

Re: Well, it made sense _inside_ my head. Honest.

[kateorman]

Yeeeup!

[svilleficrecs]

Um, some versions of a gene (with slightly different DNA) make it so the cell's pluggy-inny thing for the hormone. Gums up the lock, or makes it so the key doesn't fit or whatever, so the hormone can't do its thing with the cell?

Something like that?

[svilleficrecs]

"pluggy-inny thing for the hormone doesn't work"

[kateorman]

Ya know I'm quite surprised by the number of people so far who've parsed that. w00t

[seeingred]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA JESUS DELETE THAT WOULD YOU

[outsdr]

sorry.

[kateorman]

*tries to restart heart*

that poor little fucker