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Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
Very cool. :yes:
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Lol in the first 30 secs i saw something. It looked like it was parashooting, and it was pritty funny.
Yeah im still unsure what i was looking at. Yes i know it is a Cell, but meh. Colorful aint it?
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Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
****ing awesome. :yes:

 
Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
<nerd_sigh>

It's really sad that I could identify the DNA polymerase, transcription, translation, tubulin generation, the endoplasmic reticulum, and the Golgi apparatus.

</nerd_sigh>

 

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Ahhh... I still have this bookmarked from the last time I saw it. So very awesome. Thanks for reminding me about it.

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Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
<nerd_sigh>

It's really sad that I could identify the DNA polymerase, transcription, translation, tubulin generation, the endoplasmic reticulum, and the Golgi apparatus.

</nerd_sigh>

Did you happen to notice what kingdom that cell belongs to though? :P

You missed exocytosis, enzymatic hydrolysis, and what looked to me an awful lot like RNA splicing... :D
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What was the uhhh, walking thing?  Also, where was it going, and where had it come from?
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Clearly, it just is, and therefore God made it.
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No no, we're trying to start a debate in the Darwin Day thread, not this one. ;)
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What was the uhhh, walking thing?  Also, where was it going, and where had it come from?

That was a motor protein moving a vesicle along a microtubule.
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What was the uhhh, walking thing?  Also, where was it going, and where had it come from?
That was a motor protein moving a vesicle along a microtubule.
It looks so damn mechanical. Really puts into perspective how we're just machines, albeit squishy machines.

 

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Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
What was the uhhh, walking thing?  Also, where was it going, and where had it come from?
That was a motor protein moving a vesicle along a microtubule.
It looks so damn mechanical. Really puts into perspective how we're just machines, albeit squishy machines.

QFT. I saw the Golgi apparatus too, hard to miss in all its undulating glory. I don't give a hoot if that's not what it really looks like, it's still awesome. What sort of cell was it? It was crawling through the bloodstream and slipped through the wall, but I don't know nearly enough about biology to get much else.

EDIT: Hold on, the loops attaching to holes in the...cytoplasm? Extruding... proteins? Then that must be... RNA! Yay, I got it!
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Re: The Inner Life of a Cell
That video actually depicts a couple types of cells.  There's a couple frames that identify a cell wall, which things with a bloodstream generally don't have.  All the structures were eukaryotes, so it seems that had both animal, and plant (or I suppose fungal) cells.
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What was the uhhh, walking thing?  Also, where was it going, and where had it come from?
That was a motor protein moving a vesicle along a microtubule.
It looks so damn mechanical. Really puts into perspective how we're just machines, albeit squishy machines.

Brilliant manufacturing process, though :D