#farseercreed

[horsefangs]

farseerscreed replied to your photoset: Someone come take these little freeloaders off my...

that white/maize baby is so pretty tho

he is hagalaz and sowilo's great grandkid! i'm partial to the coloring myself, but i need the lair space and i'm trying not to stock my lair with a bunch of dragons that are related to one another anymore so i have more breeding options. would you like him? 

[horsefangs]

I AM A SEMESTER AWAY FROM A MICROBIOLOGY BS CAN I HELP YOU I HAVE LOTS OF KNOWLEDGE also i totally feel you on being burned out ugh

mmmmmooost probably! you are hells of a lot more knowledgeable about this sort of thing than i am and i totally defer to your expertise. er, but it's a really, really broad topic so it's kind of hard to narrow it down to specific things bc. i don't... under..stand... like. a lot. the unit is evolution, which i guess is fairly basic but the whole evolution of cellular life thing is new to me, which i'm not sure if you have a specifically detailed knowledge of but. here is my present understanding of, for example, protocells:

1. long long time ago, like. 3 billion years ago, stuff happened in primordial soup on earth, 

2. primordial soup was presumably made of. i don't actually know what these compounds are i don't remember enough of my chemistry and i just notated them on the paper shit i should know this. they are made of hydrogen and carbon and nitrogen. stanley miller experiment, organic compounds & amino acids = building blocks of proteins, and carbohydrates and lipids and nucleic acids?

3. and this made protocells possible because the lipids ... spontaneously came together in a circle and formed a little membrane through other molecules pass through but they can't get back out. 'molecules' assemble in the cell to make polymers. or the polymers make rna or something. rna is a... catalytic... enzyme. somewhere along the line i guess some things manage to replicate???? the rna??? the protocell eventually expands to the point that it splits, randomly dividing the content between the two new cells

4. protocells gradually evolve into not protocells like bacteria things or something that starts with a ba and then maybe they evolve into prokaryotes which might be plant-like cells and the prokaryotes evolve into eukaryotes which are.. animal cells???? my entire understanding of this is a blur. also my handwriting is terrible i can't read my own notes 

blugh and that's just a chip off the tip of the iceberg for the stuff i gotta know 

but if you are capable of clearing up any of the above misunderstandings that would be very helpful, i am just going to have to whip out my text book and go back over the nitty-gritty details tomorrow and monday

yeah my motivation this year has really gone down the toilet, burn-out sucks big time. i remember when i used to regard every college class with a healthy degree of intrigue even if it wasn't really my bag and these days it's just like, the magic has of learning has worn off. too much learning. need less learning. more time to expand horizons utilizing relevant knowledge all ready learned.

(it's 3 am here in NY now though so i've got to sleep; thank you for offering your help tho!)

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farseerscreed replied to your post: Oh shit am I shipping Ginny and Tom Riddle?

pshhhh quirrelmort 5evah!

Oh I totally ship Quirrelmort too. I don't know anymore!