Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Medical trivia

Just random trivia bits I picked up which I love.

1) If you have a defective ovary, and a defective fallopian tube (ovarian tube) on opposite sides, you're probably not infertile. The working fallopian tube will move across the uterus, and reach over to the working ovary, and hoover up the egg expelled from the ovary. Really freaky, a bit like an alien tentacle.

2) We have about 2 metres of DNA in each of the nuclei of most human cells. This gets packaged and folded into nifty chromosomes which are only 5 micrometres big. (A human hair is about 80 micrometres wide)

Three posts in a day! Caffeine is a mighty, but dangerous thing.

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