Monday, June 2, 2008
Anyone likes puffer fish?
Or puffer fish sushi, or puffer fish anything?Well, I know its not Friday, and its not even the weekend, but here you go.
Of course we all know the puffer fish is famous for its poison. But do you know that the puffer fish is famous for being a neat freak too? While our DNA contain tons of useless stuff, a number of which are likely to be virus code that we didn't manage to get rid off (but those code can sometimes replicate - Beware! Virus detected in your body!), and basically making our genome one big pile of mess. But if you look at a puffer fish, its genome is much, much shorter than ours, but it still codes for all the organs and proteins you'll see in any other animal (+ poison). Find out why the puffer fish is so dangerous yet so efficient. (Oooh, efficiently dangerous)
