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@GreenSkyOverMe @SmudgeTheInsultCat Well, it might be niche knowledge, but practically everything I was taught about genetics and biology has been overturned since 1994. It‘s probably similar in other areas, I just don‘t know it. I would actually pay for such a website. 7 comments
@ytami @GreenSkyOverMe @SmudgeTheInsultCat It's the year I got my Abitur (school diploma after 13 years in Germany), i.e. the last year in which somebody taught me something in that area. :) @zappes @GreenSkyOverMe @SmudgeTheInsultCat ah, okay. For me it is roughly the year I learned to walk 😅 @zappes @GreenSkyOverMe @SmudgeTheInsultCat Not so much genetics but rather our knowledge of the molecular biology of the gene has changed substantially since I was in college in the late seventies. I was helping someone study for their exam recently and there are multiple components and steps in the process that we did not even know about in 1980. @ic3ix Well, you did know about Restriction Endonucleases back then :-) @zappes @GreenSkyOverMe @SmudgeTheInsultCat @carl @zappes @GreenSkyOverMe @SmudgeTheInsultCat Yes, I’m not that old. 😛 I think restriction enzymes were discovered in the early 1950s and their ability to cleave specific base pair sequences was demonstrated about 20 years later. @ic3ix Arber got a Nobel Prize in 1973 for the discovery, if I remember correctly. @zappes @GreenSkyOverMe @SmudgeTheInsultCat |
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@zappes @GreenSkyOverMe @SmudgeTheInsultCat any particular reason for the year 1994? Was there some major discovery in biology or is it a more or less random year, chosen by you? :)
By following transgender-debates I recently realized, that I miss a lot of modern biology knowledge 🙈