Chapter eight: making scents.

This chapter, to me was very interesting because its always cool to learn about odors. Its like the McDonald's down the street that puts a fan next to the fries to give off a scent that attracts more customers. Shubin also said bake bread when your selling a home because it is more likely to sell.

I think its fascinating, how we can see DNA in this one simple experiment that Shubin explains( I think we should do the experiment this year lol). We will see the "goop" aka DNA.
Shubin states: "Recall that all our cells contain the same DNA; what differs is which bits of DNA are active (140)".
This is super cool, I never knew this! ahaha. Cells have a lot of memory or stuff in it. Cells are really compact and it would be fun if we can shrink down and travel inside of it. A whole new DISNEYLAND. LOL. Well, nothing can compare to Disneyland. :)
AND WE HAVE FIVE THOUSAND TO TEN THOUSAND ODORS! dang!!!!!!
Shubin states: "As we breathe or sniff, we suck these odor molecules into our nostrils (141)"
The process in which this happens is cool but kind of gross at the same time. It is also weird how we perceive many smells as one but we notice every smell we intake.

"We humans are a part of lineage that has traded smell for sight" :D I like this quote. This is very amazing :) Smell and Sight are very important