Thursday, June 25, 2009

Armadillos and proteins

Two random facts of the day:

  • the Dasypus genus of armadillos gives birth to four homozygous armadillo babies (that's identical quadruplets) every time they give birth.
  • titin is the largest known protein with almost 3,000 kDa, which is about 5x10^-18 grams, which is, really, really small, but huge in the protein world.

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