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Your DNA name
« on: September 22, 2010, 05:45:56 PM »
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/schools/decode/

Turns your name into a DNA sequence.

My full name is the same DNA sequence as a mouse.
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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2010, 05:53:01 PM »
That's awesome!

Without my middle name, I'm the same as a certain protein found in the Queen Victoria cone.

With my middle name, I'm the same as a protein found in Fission yeast.

Either way it's not as cool as a mouse!  :-\\\\
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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2010, 06:38:40 PM »
mine was the protein found in e.Coli. not sure how I feel about that! :-\\\\
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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2010, 06:48:33 PM »
Full name:  The protein is found in Baker's yeast.

My husband's full name is the protein found in what causes halo blight on beans & other legumes.
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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 2010, 10:40:43 AM »
Married name - I am a nematode that lives in soil and has been on the International Space Station.

Maiden name - I am the organism that causes trench fever.
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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2010, 10:45:46 AM »
Married name: A protein found in the Lyme Disease spirochete  :-\\\\

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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2010, 10:47:35 AM »
Married Name: Coxiella burnetii is a species of intracellular, pathogenic bacteria, and is the causative agent of Q fever.

DH Name:Fission yeast

Wow what a pair
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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #7 on: September 23, 2010, 10:49:02 AM »
Full Name: A protein found in Rice! Perhaps I eat too much curry....
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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #8 on: September 24, 2010, 10:09:19 AM »
Mine was Indian Wild Rice!  :D [smiley=2thumbsup.gif]

Fitting, I think!
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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #9 on: September 24, 2010, 10:30:06 AM »
My maiden name was Chlamydia trachomatis.  Erm...  :-[

Rather be Baker's Yeast, I think - good thing I married that guy!
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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2010, 01:08:15 PM »
I'm a tomato!!  ;D
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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2010, 10:25:05 PM »
Quote from: phatbeetle on September 24, 2010, 01:08:15 PM
I'm a tomato!!  ;D

I'd love to be a tomato!  ;D
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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2010, 10:41:55 PM »
my full maiden name makes me a zebrafish

my full married name makes me a mouse

my fiancee's name makes him a rainbow trout.

and my son is.. a manchurian scorpion ...  [smiley=blank.gif]
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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2010, 12:08:32 PM »
My married name: yeast plasma  [smiley=inquisitive.gif]

My maiden name: e. coli   [smiley=shame.gif]

DH's name: a gene that contributes to the metabolism of sulfur-containing amino acids.  [smiley=huh2.gif]

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Re: Your DNA name
« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2010, 01:13:12 PM »
How cool! (then again, I would say that, as I'm studying Biochemistry...)

Me: a reductase found in Staphylococcus aureus

DB: a ribosomal protein in Tropheryma whipplei

so we're both infectious...until we end up married and I become the great crested newt, GB's largest newt species. woo!
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