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lizz612
lizz612 aka Beth is a 26.95 year old girl, has been a member since July 20, 2006, has scored 5,770 submissions, giving an average score of 2.34, helping 104 designs get printed.
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Firstly I can't tell you exactly why the water mellons are crying, maybe its about seedless babies, maybe its about not having babies, I don't know.

What I can tell you is why bananas are seedless and how seedless water mellons are made. Its not genetic enginering in the "insert genes from something else, now my strawberries glow in the dark" kind of way. Seedless fruit is caused by having an od number of sets of chromosomes. This causes the division of cells into gamestes (unfertilized eggs or spermies) to fail. These failed gametes are the little balck specks in bananas and white shrived things in seedless water mellons. Polyploidy is naturally occuring, but we humans are the ones who cultivate it.

For more information, consult your nearest biologist, or Wikipedia.

That said, I really want this shirt. Congrats to the designer.

smellslikeupdog
smellslikeupdog on Dec 07 '06 at 1:45pm
That. Is. AWESOME.

Hurray for polyploidy! Poor seedless watermelon.

I must have this shirt too.
The_Calamity_of_Humanity
The_Calamity_of_Humanity on Dec 07 '06 at 1:47pm
i think im going to smash a watermelon now
eille08
eille08 on Dec 07 '06 at 1:51pm
i think it's supposed to be "gametes", not "gamestes"....



Mm, gotta love wikipedia.
hadaloo
hadaloo on Dec 07 '06 at 2:11pm
Haha, this made me laugh!
katoon
katoon on Dec 07 '06 at 3:16pm
i was about to start this blog and then discovered that it already existed.
rudra
rudra on Dec 07 '06 at 3:30pm
seedless watermelons aren't really seedless



and the seeds i found in a seedless white watermelon - turned into a very robust 10ft diameter fruit-bearing watermelon plant



which totally kicked the ass of my wimpy little store-bought regular watermelon



unfortunately, it was planted really late - and the cold is getting the better of it now :(
Laborpsus
Laborpsus on Dec 07 '06 at 5:08pm
yey for bio majors



I am also a Biochem student.



unexpecteddness
unexpecteddness on Dec 07 '06 at 5:18pm
she's sterile
d3d
   d3d on Dec 07 '06 at 5:19pm
Science: ruining fun since 1843
katoon
katoon on Dec 07 '06 at 5:43pm
ruing fun? more like learning about why fun is so fun...which is fun in itself.



I'm such a nerd...
Laborpsus
Laborpsus on Dec 07 '06 at 5:45pm
d3d, I'd wear that.



type tee sub?
derangeddaoist
derangeddaoist on Dec 07 '06 at 6:01pm
My roommate's definitely biochem, and I remember once he was talking about "backside attack" and I thought it sounded rather naughty.
newlanguage
newlanguage on Dec 07 '06 at 6:05pm
Haa haa haa yeah that's the best part of orgo 1.
newlanguage
newlanguage on Dec 07 '06 at 6:11pm
"Because a productive collision is a collision in which the nucleophile hits the carbon side opposite the side bonded to the leaving group, the carbon is said to undergo back-side attack. Why does the nucleophile attack from the back side? The simplest explanation is that the leaving group blocks the approach of the nucleophile to the front side of the molecule."
Mingiweirddays
Mingiweirddays on Dec 07 '06 at 10:27pm
i love biology!
Laborpsus
Laborpsus on Dec 07 '06 at 10:30pm
WHAT?



TAKE THAT BACK, SIR
soulDELAY
soulDELAY on Dec 07 '06 at 10:31pm
"backside attack", "nuclophiles"... ahhh.... SN1! or was it SN2? blah no one cares for such mechanisms [at least i don't...]. blah finals suck. i just had my organic final yesterday....



aaaand, today, was my genetics final! wooh...

those huge bananas, and other overly large fruit are ... TRIPOLOIDS!? :D har... i can't remember anything already.



go science! ...o_O
Pauls_Car
Pauls_Car on Dec 07 '06 at 10:34pm
Sorry I'm only an Aerospace Enigneer. can't quite share in the love of biology.
Daniel San
Daniel San on Dec 07 '06 at 10:37pm
Haha... Spermies.
Laborpsus
Laborpsus on Dec 07 '06 at 10:45pm
organic?



nooooooooooooo



*seizure*





that is a forbidden word in this here parts
derangeddaoist
derangeddaoist on Dec 08 '06 at 4:08am
A premed majoring in biochem is like lighting a candle with a blowtorch.
ecky_ducky
ecky_ducky on Dec 08 '06 at 4:10am
Psychology is the best. They have terms like 'social loafing.' Bread. Lol.
Vespucci
Vespucci on Dec 08 '06 at 4:17am
polyploidy (if i remember correctly) is also one of the reasons why your weed is like twenty times more fun than your mommy and daddy's weed was. does that still qualify as science ruining fun?
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