This has no particular format; it’s just correcting or updating anything in the show we didn’t get a chance to fully talk about or things we had on the tips of our tongues and couldn’t get out as we recorded. As always, feel free to comment, and we will address stuff in future shows! Enjoy.
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Who your favorite mutant is?
Favorite Cereal/food to eat while watching cartoons?
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Genotype vs phenotype
Genotype is an organisms unique sequence of DNA.
Phenotype is the observable expression of this genotype – a person’s presentation.
Mutation:
Hereditary mutations (germ line) vs Somatic mutations (non-germ line cells)
Causes:
is a physical or chemical agent that permanently changes genetic material, usually DNA, in an organism and thus increases the frequency of mutations above the natural background level.
any substance, radionuclide, or radiation that promotes carcinogenesis (Cancer).
substances that may cause non-heritable birth defects via a toxic effect on an embryo or fetus.
Cancer:
Cancer from secondhand smoke.
Peppered Moth’s adaptation during Industrial Revolution
Evolutionary changes of African Elephant thank size due to poaching
Wolves adapt to radiation at Chernobyl
Marvel Unique Mutants:
Sooraya:
A mutant with the ability to transform her body into a pliable cloud of dust.
Bailey Hoskins: Worst X-man ever
A mutant with the worst power of self-detonation which he could only use once, since this power could kill him
Fallout series video game
Legacy virus:
The Legacy Virus was based on a virus created by Apocalypse in the distant future, which was intended to kill the remaining non-mutants.
Stryfe engineered the Legacy virus to kill mutants. In the beginning the virus was only targeting mutants but it jumped to humans
Comic series cured by Colossus and in X:Men animated series it was Wolverine was used by Cable to generate a cure (utilizing wolverine’s healing factor).
Can we create a Real Wolverine
Healing factor
Wolverine has healing factor: he can heal from any injury or disease. Yet, there are a number of inconstancies. Also, Wolverine has bones fused with Adamantium (a virtually indestructible steel alloy named after the fabled metal Adamantine of Greek mythology).
All about Bones:
What are Bones made of? Our bones have metal: calcium, trace metals like copper, zinc, magnesium
Bones are needed to act as a calcium sink
Metal to Bone fusing
Osseointegration (from Latin osseus “bony” and integrare “to make whole”) is the direct structural and functional connection between living bone and the surface of a load-bearing artificial implant
Osseointegration was first observed—albeit not explicitly stated—by Bothe, Beaton, and Davenport in 1940
What happens if you coat bones in metal?
Adamantium ripped from his body by Magneto’s powers: Wolverine #75
Human genotypes/phenotypes similar Marvel’s Nightcrawler
Gus Gormon played by Richard Pryor in Superman III makes fake Kryptonite and creates Evil Superman.
DC doesn’t have mutants, but Metahumans. But a metahuman by any other name is still a mutant.
Godzilla clone: Space Godzilla
Movie: Gattaca (1997)
Book: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 1932:
Hearing loss
Genetic hearing loss restored with gene therapy
Alzheimer’s treatment disparities
Alzheimer’s drug trials plagued by lack of racial diversity
Movie: Rise of Planet of the Apes (2011)
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