Yesterday, Dinner escaped while I was taking out the trash.
There were a couple of ladies getting out of their car who saw him. One of them audibly gasped and went "He's beautiful!"
That's right, I have a stunningly beautiful cat.
I hope you let them know what the cat's name was. Cause I'm sure that would have been an entertaining conversation.
I was reading about this cat a bit ago and apparently it is called a chimera. I guess the idea was that one cat absorbed its brother in utero and so it displays colors of both cats. It can happen in humans but usually in less noticeable forms, like someone having two blood types. (I have explained this poorly but feel free to look up chimeras on Wikipedia for a better explanation)
I was reading about this cat a bit ago and apparently it is called a chimera. I guess the idea was that one cat absorbed its brother in utero and so it displays colors of both cats. It can happen in humans but usually in less noticeable forms, like someone having two blood types. (I have explained this poorly but feel free to look up chimeras on Wikipedia for a better explanation)
Chimerism is super neat and I strongly recommend people look it up.
I was reading about this cat a bit ago and apparently it is called a chimera. I guess the idea was that one cat absorbed its brother in utero and so it displays colors of both cats. It can happen in humans but usually in less noticeable forms, like someone having two blood types. (I have explained this poorly but feel free to look up chimeras on Wikipedia for a better explanation)
Chimerism is super neat and I strongly recommend people look it up.
Counterpoint: chimerism squicks me out because one organism being made up of multiple partial organisms is unsettling to think about.
I was reading about this cat a bit ago and apparently it is called a chimera. I guess the idea was that one cat absorbed its brother in utero and so it displays colors of both cats. It can happen in humans but usually in less noticeable forms, like someone having two blood types. (I have explained this poorly but feel free to look up chimeras on Wikipedia for a better explanation)
Chimerism is super neat and I strongly recommend people look it up.
Counterpoint: chimerism squicks me out because one organism being made up of multiple partial organisms is unsettling to think about.
Think about this--none of us are really a cohesive thing at all--we're just a conglomerate of tiny tiny individual cells that usually play nice together, but things can go out of whack and they can start fighting.
Also anyone whose ever gotten a successful organ transplant is made up of multiple partial organisms.
I was reading about this cat a bit ago and apparently it is called a chimera. I guess the idea was that one cat absorbed its brother in utero and so it displays colors of both cats. It can happen in humans but usually in less noticeable forms, like someone having two blood types. (I have explained this poorly but feel free to look up chimeras on Wikipedia for a better explanation)
Chimerism is super neat and I strongly recommend people look it up.
Counterpoint: chimerism squicks me out because one organism being made up of multiple partial organisms is unsettling to think about.
Cool fact: Women who have given birth frequently have small amounts of their children's cells still living in their bodies due to stem cells migrating from the foetus while they share blood circulation. Thus, DNA analysis of a mother has a very small chance of accidentally identifying her as her child.
I was reading about this cat a bit ago and apparently it is called a chimera. I guess the idea was that one cat absorbed its brother in utero and so it displays colors of both cats. It can happen in humans but usually in less noticeable forms, like someone having two blood types. (I have explained this poorly but feel free to look up chimeras on Wikipedia for a better explanation)
Chimerism is super neat and I strongly recommend people look it up.
Counterpoint: chimerism squicks me out because one organism being made up of multiple partial organisms is unsettling to think about.
Think about this--none of us are really a cohesive thing at all--we're just a conglomerate of tiny tiny individual cells that usually play nice together, but things can go out of whack and they can start fighting.
Also anyone whose ever gotten a successful organ transplant is made up of multiple partial organisms.
On top of us being a collection of cells, we're also mostly bacteria and fungi. Thousands upon thousands of cuddly snuggly bacteria friends.
I was reading about this cat a bit ago and apparently it is called a chimera. I guess the idea was that one cat absorbed its brother in utero and so it displays colors of both cats. It can happen in humans but usually in less noticeable forms, like someone having two blood types. (I have explained this poorly but feel free to look up chimeras on Wikipedia for a better explanation)
Chimerism is super neat and I strongly recommend people look it up.
Counterpoint: chimerism squicks me out because one organism being made up of multiple partial organisms is unsettling to think about.
Think about this--none of us are really a cohesive thing at all--we're just a conglomerate of tiny tiny individual cells that usually play nice together, but things can go out of whack and they can start fighting.
Also anyone whose ever gotten a successful organ transplant is made up of multiple partial organisms.
On top of us being a collection of cells, we're also mostly bacteria and fungi. Thousands upon thousands of cuddly snuggly bacteria friends.
That's apparently mostly a myth. A fairly recent study did find that bacterial cells outnumber human cells in the body, but far closer to 1:1 than 10:1. Moreover, bacterial cells are so much smaller than human cells that they only make up a tiny fraction of our mass.
Edit: Take that with a grain of salt though, I did the very minimum of research on the subject.
I was reading about this cat a bit ago and apparently it is called a chimera. I guess the idea was that one cat absorbed its brother in utero and so it displays colors of both cats. It can happen in humans but usually in less noticeable forms, like someone having two blood types. (I have explained this poorly but feel free to look up chimeras on Wikipedia for a better explanation)
Chimerism is super neat and I strongly recommend people look it up.
Counterpoint: chimerism squicks me out because one organism being made up of multiple partial organisms is unsettling to think about.
Cool fact: Women who have given birth frequently have small amounts of their children's cells still living in their bodies due to stem cells migrating from the foetus while they share blood circulation. Thus, DNA analysis of a mother has a very small chance of accidentally identifying her as her child.
During pregnancy, cell-free fetal DNA comprises ~5% of the free DNA in the mother's bloodstream. After pregnancy, the amount of fetal DNA remaining in the woman's blood stream is close to 0. If you're suggesting that women still have their children's DNA in their bloodstream a long time after birth, I haven't heard of this, and can't conceive of how it would occur since blood comes from bone marrow (although it might, and I just don't know how).
Cell-free fetal DNA is currently being investigated for sequencing use. Its low quantity is currently problematic, in that it's easily overwhelmed by maternal DNA and current sequencing technologies basically rely on sequencing DNA many many times and taking the consensus to eliminate error, which also happens to eliminate the information from fetal DNA. It is currently useful for certain test though that are more about yes/no presence and gross ratios of fetal DNA to maternal DNA.
I was reading about this cat a bit ago and apparently it is called a chimera. I guess the idea was that one cat absorbed its brother in utero and so it displays colors of both cats. It can happen in humans but usually in less noticeable forms, like someone having two blood types. (I have explained this poorly but feel free to look up chimeras on Wikipedia for a better explanation)
Chimerism is super neat and I strongly recommend people look it up.
Counterpoint: chimerism squicks me out because one organism being made up of multiple partial organisms is unsettling to think about.
Cool fact: Women who have given birth frequently have small amounts of their children's cells still living in their bodies due to stem cells migrating from the foetus while they share blood circulation. Thus, DNA analysis of a mother has a very small chance of accidentally identifying her as her child.
During pregnancy, cell-free fetal DNA comprises ~5% of the free DNA in the mother's bloodstream. After pregnancy, the amount of fetal DNA remaining in the woman's blood stream is close to 0. If you're suggesting that women still have their children's DNA in their bloodstream a long time after birth, I haven't heard of this, and can't conceive of how it would occur since blood comes from bone marrow (although it might, and I just don't know how).
Cell-free fetal DNA is currently being investigated for sequencing use. Its low quantity is currently problematic, in that it's easily overwhelmed by maternal DNA and current sequencing technologies basically rely on sequencing DNA many many times and taking the consensus to eliminate error, which also happens to eliminate the information from fetal DNA. It is currently useful for certain test though that are more about yes/no presence and gross ratios of fetal DNA to maternal DNA.
I don't have the source, but it was described as stem cells essentially colonizing the mothers tissue from the blood stream. A blood DNA test wouldn't pick that up, but a tissue sample feasibly could.
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Tucker was a very good boy getting his adrenal disease-suppressing implant today. He barely even noticed the syringe since they gave him some sort of liquid treat.
He ended up licking his lips so much while the aid held him that he licked her nose, thinking there was more.
I remember reading a story about a woman who had one of those absorbed-her-own-twin things going on that somehow resulted in her not passing maternity tests, because her eggs were genetically different enough from her cheek swab cells (or whatever they use to test those). Apparently created some interesting legal difficulties before they figured it out.
If a person knew they were a chimera, but it wasn't registered in their medical history, they could cause quite a bit of mischief. Of course you'd have to know which parts of you had different DNA than the others, so realistically you'd also have to have personal access to a sequencing machine and lol good luck widdat.
My bird apparently loves chicken, this freaks me the fuck out.
That's your cousin dude!
Spoilered for very un-sungglehuggy.
I pulled into work this morning, and there was a little bird with an obviously broken leg in my parking space (I almost hit it, missed by maybe two inches). When I did notice the bird, I frowned for a second, 'cause I knew that bird was going to die. I mean, maybe somebody better with animal awareness and with knowledge, sensitivity, and ability could have saved it, but I knew it was way beyond me.
So anyway, I go inside and tell a co-worker about it. She frowns, and is sad, but there's nothing we can realistically do. A little while goes by, and I decide I should at least try.
I go outside, and the little bird is gone. But a few feet away is a crow with a little red string of meat hanging from it's mouth, with a little bloody bird skull at its feet, and surrounded by feathers.
He tried, but he just didn't have the teeth to follow in the footstep of his idol, the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
My bird apparently loves chicken, this freaks me the fuck out.
That's your cousin dude!
Spoilered for very un-sungglehuggy.
I pulled into work this morning, and there was a little bird with an obviously broken leg in my parking space (I almost hit it, missed by maybe two inches). When I did notice the bird, I frowned for a second, 'cause I knew that bird was going to die. I mean, maybe somebody better with animal awareness and with knowledge, sensitivity, and ability could have saved it, but I knew it was way beyond me.
So anyway, I go inside and tell a co-worker about it. She frowns, and is sad, but there's nothing we can realistically do. A little while goes by, and I decide I should at least try.
I go outside, and the little bird is gone. But a few feet away is a crow with a little red string of meat hanging from it's mouth, with a little bloody bird skull at its feet, and surrounded by feathers.
Hakuna matata, motherfuckers.
See, that actually makes me feel good about it. Because an injured animal becoming food for another animal is the best case scenario and the way nature should work. Like, one bird died but another got a nice fresh meal.
I was reading about this cat a bit ago and apparently it is called a chimera. I guess the idea was that one cat absorbed its brother in utero and so it displays colors of both cats. It can happen in humans but usually in less noticeable forms, like someone having two blood types. (I have explained this poorly but feel free to look up chimeras on Wikipedia for a better explanation)
Chimerism is super neat and I strongly recommend people look it up.
Counterpoint: chimerism squicks me out because one organism being made up of multiple partial organisms is unsettling to think about.
Nah its just two baby kittys did a little fusion dance while still in their mom. And now their power level is over 9000!
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I hope you let them know what the cat's name was. Cause I'm sure that would have been an entertaining conversation.
"He's beautiful!"
"He's Dinner."
"...?" Backs away slowly.
I believe in Hairvey Dent.
Chimerism is super neat and I strongly recommend people look it up.
Does that cat happen to be named Deathstroke? It should.
Man I know a lot of internet cats, huh?
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Counterpoint: chimerism squicks me out because one organism being made up of multiple partial organisms is unsettling to think about.
Think about this--none of us are really a cohesive thing at all--we're just a conglomerate of tiny tiny individual cells that usually play nice together, but things can go out of whack and they can start fighting.
Also anyone whose ever gotten a successful organ transplant is made up of multiple partial organisms.
Cool fact: Women who have given birth frequently have small amounts of their children's cells still living in their bodies due to stem cells migrating from the foetus while they share blood circulation. Thus, DNA analysis of a mother has a very small chance of accidentally identifying her as her child.
On top of us being a collection of cells, we're also mostly bacteria and fungi. Thousands upon thousands of cuddly snuggly bacteria friends.
That's apparently mostly a myth. A fairly recent study did find that bacterial cells outnumber human cells in the body, but far closer to 1:1 than 10:1. Moreover, bacterial cells are so much smaller than human cells that they only make up a tiny fraction of our mass.
Edit: Take that with a grain of salt though, I did the very minimum of research on the subject.
During pregnancy, cell-free fetal DNA comprises ~5% of the free DNA in the mother's bloodstream. After pregnancy, the amount of fetal DNA remaining in the woman's blood stream is close to 0. If you're suggesting that women still have their children's DNA in their bloodstream a long time after birth, I haven't heard of this, and can't conceive of how it would occur since blood comes from bone marrow (although it might, and I just don't know how).
Cell-free fetal DNA is currently being investigated for sequencing use. Its low quantity is currently problematic, in that it's easily overwhelmed by maternal DNA and current sequencing technologies basically rely on sequencing DNA many many times and taking the consensus to eliminate error, which also happens to eliminate the information from fetal DNA. It is currently useful for certain test though that are more about yes/no presence and gross ratios of fetal DNA to maternal DNA.
I don't have the source, but it was described as stem cells essentially colonizing the mothers tissue from the blood stream. A blood DNA test wouldn't pick that up, but a tissue sample feasibly could.
Ah, here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2633676/
That's your cousin dude!
We eat mammals all the time.
He ended up licking his lips so much while the aid held him that he licked her nose, thinking there was more.
I was just thinking, it might be time for a new .sig
Semen and a serial killer could literally be an alternate title for the CSI series.
Worst Dungeons and Dragons expansion, ever.
Its the avian equivalent of a human eating a cow!
(my birb also loves chicken)
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Spoilered for very un-sungglehuggy.
So anyway, I go inside and tell a co-worker about it. She frowns, and is sad, but there's nothing we can realistically do. A little while goes by, and I decide I should at least try.
I go outside, and the little bird is gone. But a few feet away is a crow with a little red string of meat hanging from it's mouth, with a little bloody bird skull at its feet, and surrounded by feathers.
Hakuna matata, motherfuckers.
I AM FLUFFY THE BABY DEVOURER!
Look at the bones!
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Its fine!