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petmoosie ([personal profile] petmoosie) wrote2008-05-08 08:22 pm
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My area of expertise

Well, it's either protein structure and function or reproductive biology. Of course, the students giggle more when discussing the later.

[identity profile] ashtalet.livejournal.com 2008-05-09 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Obviously, you need some better protein jokes...

[identity profile] petmoosie.livejournal.com 2008-05-09 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Any suggestions? The alpha helix went into a bar (and denatured)...

And then the catalytic Asparagine attacked.

hmm.

Protein jokes

[identity profile] metageek.livejournal.com 2008-05-09 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
So these two right-handed amino acids walk into a ribosome, and the transfer RNA molecule says, "Hey! We don't serve your kind here!".

Re: Protein jokes

[identity profile] petmoosie.livejournal.com 2008-05-09 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
that's funny (and right).

[identity profile] ashtalet.livejournal.com 2008-05-09 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately, the Science Jokes Wiki is somewhat deficient in this area...

http://science-jokes.wikidot.com/

BSE

[identity profile] metageek.livejournal.com 2008-05-11 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
I told [livejournal.com profile] cvirtue the right-handed amino acid one, and she came up with this:

Q: Why can't bovine spongiform encephalopathy get patents on its work?
A: Because it's all prion art.

Re: BSE

[identity profile] petmoosie.livejournal.com 2008-05-11 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I like that one also!!!

Thanks
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[identity profile] starstraf.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
reporductive biology was Holly's bachelors specalty (then she went for a masters as a computer geek)