Every once and a while (and by “once and a while” I mean “at least twice a week”), I have this overwhelming SCIENCE IS SO AMAZING feeling. These feelings usually happen when I start really thinking about the brain, or how skin works, or when I’m performing a PCR in the lab.
This week, the feeling came from watching THIS VIDEO. DNA just REPLICATES. It just DOES. (Well, I guess helicase is technically the thing that makes it work, but still.) If you didn’t understand how DNA works before, you’ll definitely understand now. I think that if this sort of thing were more widely distributed throughout schools, science would be much easier for young people to understand. Part of my trouble with chemistry at first was the fact that I could not SEE what I was supposed to be learning. There just wasn’t a good way of showing how things work on a molecular level.
My favorite part, personally, is the bit on transcription.
