• Question: What does professional genome starrer mean. and what do you do in professional genome starrer?

    Asked by anon-175976 to Simran, Paul, Jenny, Ali on 11 Jun 2018.
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      Ali Hill answered on 11 Jun 2018:

      Is this a question for Mark? I think he means he spends all day looking at a genome, which is sort of like the instruction manual that a cell has. In the same way that Ikea furniture has a set of instructions so you know how to make it. The body has a set of instructions in each cell so it knows what it should be or do or look like. He spends all day looking at the genome of bacteria. There are so many amazing things we still need to find out about science!

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  • Photo: Mark

    Mark commented on :

    Haha, yes I think it’s a question about my profile, but Ali did a great job of answering!

    I was joking about the fact that I spend a lot of my day looking at a computer screen, at bacterial genomes.
    In fact, with bacteria, it’s like having an instruction manual for some Ikea furniture, but they deleted some instructions, and added some extra in that were totally not for that piece of furniture, just to make things complicated 😀

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    Ali commented on :

    So a bit like every single flat pack furniture instruction manual ever?….