Chapter Tres: Tu Inner Pescado

Okay, first off, I'd like to say... What? This has got to be the most disturbing and completely confusing chapter I have ever read. So, because I didn't want to post something completely stupid sounding, I went on and read what everyone else had to say. Now, I'd like to say Thank you Mr. Tisor for this blog, because it saved my brain from a mental collapse of words.

Alrighty, so after understanding, or semi-understanding, what is going on, I was shocked at how one slight movement or placement of a tissue could alter the life of an animal. It made me realize, like Lauren said, that we do take for granted the littlest, most important things in our lives: our DNA. Because we are so connected and similar to chickens and flies and skates, it makes me understand and believe that we are so deeply connected with all of the species on this earth, and that is pretty cool.

Okay, like Julia, I understand that certain genes turn off an on during our development, otherwise we'd be looking like something out of a freakish horror film, but once we got into the "pinky-thumb-looking-the-same-and-switching-to-the-other-side-still-looking-the-same" thing, I was lost. But, like everyone else, I reread and understood how simply sliding a piece of foil could alter where bones form and where genes travel to inside a hand or a fin, and that was pretty interesting.

What still puzzles me is that how can MOUSE Sonic hedgehog protein alter SKATE development? They are two different animals... but then Subin explained that "all appendages... are built by similar kinds of genes" (58). Amen.

- Courtney Inbody