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user-inactivated · 2873 days ago · link · · parent · post: Physicists confirm there's a second layer of information hidden in our DNA
What?! That's crazy! Any way you can explain this in layman's terms? Like what? It would take a lot of onion to make a rope, wouldn't it?Your cells can chitchat with each other using chemicals and cause large-scale change, no central nervous system needed.
What's even weirder is that a decent number of things about you are determined not by your own DNA, but by the DNA of the several pounds of bacteria that live in and on you.
Did you know you can extract DNA from an onion using mostly household kitchen equipment?