The Body:a Guide For Occupants Flashcards

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Cost of a human

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Cheapish for the materials…..minus the millions of years of evolution and yearning and striving cumberbatch: 96546 pounds 79 pence PBS says 168 dollars. The American public is much cheaper to make

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You are made of 7 octillian atoms

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No one can say why those 7 billion billion atoms have such an urgent desire to be you

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You unpacked take up immense space

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If you wrapped a human and laid them out cell by cell it would be huge. But that’s not what we are right now. We are densely and intricately packed just right for me to type this right now. Or for me to read this again and again later. To facilitate awareness

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Alyu element

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No 9ne knows what it does. It looks like gibberish but it’s repeated throughout 10% of all genetic material

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Titan

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Muscle elasticity and the largest protein in your body. Its name is 189819 letters long.

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Lighter eyes and hair

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No known evolutionary benefit. Just a tribal marker. Humans decided it was unique or more attractive. Like non functional chicken or dog breeds. Blue and green eyes doesn’t mean you have more blue or green but less other stuff. It is a lack and it is what I have.

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We all have mites?

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All the time?!

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Most pleasurable place to scratch

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Ankle itch

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Bacterial body swapping

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Bacteria can switch DNA with a nearby dead bacterium

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Fleming and the discovery of penicillin

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Happened bc he went on vacation and left out a mess. The bacteria floated in and settled. And it was just that Fleming noticed and didn’t throw it out. Other people made it useful

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