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fractured_sun ([personal profile] fractured_sun) wrote2009-08-25 10:23 am
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Complaining about science for fics

Have been working on zero X hadn't realised how much genetics I had forgotten. Why didn't I write a fic with protein biochemistry instead, I know about protein biochemistry.

I haven't thought much about eukaryotic (basically anything more complex than bacteria) gene expression since my degree. This chapter would be a lot easier if people were bacteria. Bacterial gene regulation is easy, I do it on a pratically daily basis in the lab. I could pretend they're the same as bacteria most people wouldn't know the difference. *headdesk* I'm too much of a science geek it would bug me way too much *goes back to textbook on gene regulation kept from my final year*.

I have more sympathy for the complete crap they spout when explaining the 'science' bits in films now.

[identity profile] boogieshoes.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
i now have a complete geek crush on you. :-)

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[identity profile] fractured-sun.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
*grins* it's important these things are right, (or as right as they can be when you're talking about genetically engineering people with super powers).