The Godwhale (S.F. Masterworks)
“Warrior human beingUnder Hive control—Spinner made your genes.Who made your soul?
Drum marvelled at Wandee’s deft manipulations. The dividing renal cell was spilled into the sorting chamber, filling the screen with X- and V-shaped chromosomes. She selected those to be augmented. Wandee’s electron pencil carved as she talked.
‘We’ll cut off half of these long arms at the secondary construction – a good landmark. Remove those little satellites, and take off the short arms from this chromosome. Ca...reful of that centromere. There, now – plenty of room for adding the synthetic chromatides from Spinner’s bath.’ The bath (a soup of purines and pyrimidines) contained the enzyme reverse transcriptase – the RNA-dependent DNA polymerase. (RNA molecules act as templates for the replications of DNA genes.) Spinner assembled the RNA template. When added to the soup, a DNA gene replicated; each grouping of three bases formed one codon (or letter) in the genetic message.
‘This appears to be an excessive amount of the Grube-Hill gene,’ suggested Drum.MoreLess
Drum marvelled at Wandee’s deft manipulations. The dividing renal cell was spilled into the sorting chamber, filling the screen with X- and V-shaped chromosomes. She selected those to be augmented. Wandee’s electron pencil carved as she talked.
‘We’ll cut off half of these long arms at the secondary construction – a good landmark. Remove those little satellites, and take off the short arms from this chromosome. Ca...reful of that centromere. There, now – plenty of room for adding the synthetic chromatides from Spinner’s bath.’ The bath (a soup of purines and pyrimidines) contained the enzyme reverse transcriptase – the RNA-dependent DNA polymerase. (RNA molecules act as templates for the replications of DNA genes.) Spinner assembled the RNA template. When added to the soup, a DNA gene replicated; each grouping of three bases formed one codon (or letter) in the genetic message.
‘This appears to be an excessive amount of the Grube-Hill gene,’ suggested Drum.MoreLess
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