Monday, January 14, 2008

Mutation

Attending a course on computer training at the moment. (I really mean at the moment. The others are doing the on-line exercise but as a naughty student I surf around with my browser !)

There are in fact quite a number of mistakes in the exercise: the handout was prepared for a previous course but the on-line program for another one. Many of the research nurses around, who are typically meticulous with details, therefore find the thing confusing. The situation is just like cells with high fidelity DNA polymerase would not be able to replicate when there is a lot of damage in the DNA. Being a bacterium with error-prone enzyme, it is of course not a problem of mine !

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