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[ocelot]

Two things in Microbiology made me laugh, and everyone else thought I was crazy.

1. Caffeine is chemically similar enough to the nucleotide adenine to be incorporated into our DNA.

Please tell me I'm not the only person in the world who finds this hilarious, if a somewhat alarming.

2. Our textbook promotes Flying Spaghetti Monsterism.


The Flying Spaghetti Monster touches even bacteria with his noodly appendage!

And his noodly appendage is called the sex pilus!

I should complain to the publishers about this egregious mixing of scientific education and religion.

Comments

[temperance14.livejournal.com]

I think you should complain about pictorial depiction of your deity in a sexual pose.

[sculptingkate.livejournal.com]

That's one heck of a pilus he has there!
AS a loyal Pastafarian, I'm happy to see His Noodly Appendages anywhere, even if they are mislabelled as fimbriae.

[cindyg.livejournal.com]

I should pass along that bit about caffeine to my goddaughter - currently taking her masteral studies in Biology *and* a loyal Starbucks venti americano consumer.

:)