• UK student builds DNA tester in his bedroom to find out if his brother is ginger
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[quote]After years of jokes from my friends saying me and Gus have different dads, I built the machine to test once and for all why my brother is ginger and I’m not. ‘The theory is that red hair appears in people with a mutated gene. They have two copies of a recessive gene which causes a mutation in the MC1R protein in DNA. ‘I built the machine so I could put that theory to the test and see for myself if Gus has that mutation, which would explain why Gus has ginger hair.’[/quote] [img]http://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/ay_107289539.jpg?w=650#038;h=1000[/img] [quote]Results proved once and for all that Gus does have the ginger gene.[/quote] [url=http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/07/labour-of-brotherly-love-teen-boffin-builds-gene-tester-in-bedroom-to-prove-ginger-haired-gus-is-his-sibling-3586196/]**SOURCE**[/url]
That guy looks like Carrot Top banged an eraser. Eraser Top.
That title is actually quite inaccurate, he simply built something that copies the DNA so it can be analysed easily inside a lab. [QUOTE]Fred, who created the £400 device while also studying for A-levels in biology, maths, further maths, physics and chemistry, soldered parts from an old VCR with resistors, transistors and wire. He described it as a ‘DNA photocopier’, which amplifies the strand so it can be analysed. After taking a swab of saliva from Gus’s cheek he put it in the device – known as a Polymerase Chain Reaction machine – he sent the sample to a lab to be analysed.[/QUOTE] Copying DNA is something scientists have been doing for decades.
[QUOTE=supersoldier58;40202199]That title is actually quite inaccurate, he simply built something that copies the DNA so it can be analysed easily inside a lab. Copying DNA is something scientists have been doing for decades.[/QUOTE] UK STUDENT BUILDS CLONING MACHINE IN HIS BEDROOM
[QUOTE=supersoldier58;40202199]That title is actually quite inaccurate, he simply built something that copies the DNA so it can be analysed easily inside a lab. Copying DNA is something scientists have been doing for decades.[/QUOTE] [I][B]Sensationalist Headlines[/B][/I]
He's gonna look like this when he's older [img]http://www.letssmiletoday.com/uploads/images/16643-I_Am_The_Sun_25.10.2012.jpg[/img]
In the picture in the OP, is he holding a DS stylus?
[QUOTE=Pretty Obscure;40202289][I][B]Sensationalist Headlines[/B][/I][/QUOTE] Is a joke, not a directive.
When I saw this dude's hair, I immediately thought of Hair. Let the sunshine in~
my hair is brown but my beard a red-ginger tinge to it.
looks like a slut to me [editline]8th April 2013[/editline] don't you agree, mips??
[QUOTE=BrickInHead;40202573]looks like a slut to me [editline]8th April 2013[/editline] don't you agree, mips??[/QUOTE] How the hell do I answer a question like that? [img]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif[/img]
No gap, and no copious freckles. He's no ginger, he's just Irish.
My brother is ginger and I am not. My grandmother was ginger. My dad wasn't. It's weird.
[QUOTE=geogzm;40203234]My brother is ginger and I am not. My grandmother was ginger. My dad wasn't. It's weird.[/QUOTE] No it's not. Ginger is a recessive gene, which means it requires two genes for you to be ginger. Your grandmother passed the gene onto your dad, but he also got another hair colour gene, so he wasn't a ginger. Your father passed the ginger gene to your brother and apparently so did your mother.
What's with Gingers and absurd haircuts?
So what's wrong with gingers? I am not in touch with social taboos like this.
PCR machines aren't rocket science. I use them all the time at my job. With some technical knowledge, I imagine anyone could hack one together from some heating and cooling equipment. It's basically just a device that runs temperature cycles. You first heat up a solution of your DNA to a high temperature, so the double helix breaks up into two single strands of DNA. Then you lower the temperature to engage a process where a polymerase enzyme rebuilds the single strands into double strands again. There are several intermediate steps, but that's basically the gist of it. You cycle the temperatures for a couple of hours so your amount of DNA grows exponentially.
[QUOTE=joost1120;40203257]No it's not. Ginger is a recessive gene, which means it requires two genes for you to be ginger. Your grandmother passed the gene onto your dad, but he also got another hair colour gene, so he wasn't a ginger. Your father passed the ginger gene to your brother and apparently so did your mother.[/QUOTE] My mother has no ginger in her family. My brother just got lucky/unlucky I guess :v:
He's rocking quite a substantial afro in that picture.
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