Dr. C attempts to explain how only 23,000 genes can manufacture hundreds of thousands of unique proteins in the human body. The answer is amazing!

Location: Boat Rock climbing area

Subjects: The one-gene one-enzyme hypothesis, bacterial genes vs genes in higher organisms, introns and exons, the splicing code, multiple codes in the same set of letters, the cell is an RNA computer, evolution might work if life were simple – it isn’t, challenging biblical and scientific understanding

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What is a gene, post-ENCODE? History and updated definition

Splicing and dicing the human genome

Intro Music by Xihcsr

Intro Graphics by MattWalkerVideo