Cytogenetics

The study of cells, particularly the chromosomes. How much DNA is there in a cell? Six feet. That is equivalent to 10,000 miles of spaghetti in a basketball sized container. Lots of information.

I attended a lecture today at Louisiana Tech. The lecture was given by Dr Virginia Thurston.

Dr Thurston is a graduate of Tech who went on to obtaining a doctorate and years of experience in medical genetics. Her talk was very informative, I understood some of it.

Nice lecture hall.

See Wiki article

Justin is usually looking at a sports event like this.

I was interested in the talk because of my exposure to the use of DNA signatures in genealogy.