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Understanding Genetics
The Great Courses
1 recommender · 1 thread · recommended in 1 year, 2020 · score 0.7
A Great Courses lecture series that explains the basics of genetics, including how DNA and genes work and how genetic knowledge is applied in real-world settings.
One commenter calls it a nicely produced course to start with for anyone wanting to learn the actual science behind genetics rather than a simplified overview.
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Even if that narration is something easily relatable by software developers, the simplification is too big to allow the reasonable comprehension of the subject.
So I still suggest anybody interested to really try to learn more about the actual science topics, instead of comforting themselves falsely believing they "understood" anything.
For the start, I would suggest the nicely produced courses:
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/biology-the-science-...
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/understanding-geneti...
Just to illustrate how non-intuitive our "common sense" is, the current estimate of the number of human cells in human body is 30,000,000,000,000 (30e12). The current estimate of the number of bacteria in human body (in the mouth and guts) is 3 times more.
The size of human genome (present in each human cell) is around 3 billion (3e9) base pairs (encoding information units of DNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_pair ). But not all the information is in the DNA alone.
The biochemical reactions happen in parallel even when a single cell is observed.
The reconstruction of gene transcription, also played in the speed it actually happens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hk9jct2ozY&t=248