DNA, Hot Pockets, & The Longest Word Ever: Crash Course Biology #11
Hank imagines himself breaking into the Hot Pockets factory to steal their secret recipes and instruction manuals in order to help us understand how the processes known as DNA transcription...
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Ok, roll it.You know what this is? It is the longest word in the world.Like, anywhere, in any language, ever.More than 189,000 letters.If you were to write it down, though I don't know why you would, it'd fill up more than100 pages!And if you could actually say it without, like, breaking your face, it'd take aboutFIVE hours!So what the frick is this word?It's the name of the longest known protein on earth. And it's actually in you right now.Because of its enormous size, it was given the nickname Titin by scientists.And that's with two i's.It's a protein that helps give some of the springiness to your muscles.Today we're going to be talking about DNA and how it, along with three versions of itscousin...
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Ok, roll it.You know what this is? It is the longest word in the world.Like, anywhere, in any language, ever.More than 189,000 letters.If you were to write it down, though I don't know why you would, it'd fill up more than100 pages!And if you could actually say it without, like, breaking your face, it'd take aboutFIVE hours!So what the frick is this word?It's the name of the longest known protein on earth. And it's actually in you right now.Because of its enormous size, it was given the nickname Titin by scientists.And that's with two i's.It's a protein that helps give some of the springiness to your muscles.Today we're going to be talking about DNA and how it, along with three versions of itscousin...
