• Question: How many practicals/experimentshave you done on the eggs?

    Asked by sophandjack to Greg on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
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      Greg FitzHarris answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Hi there. MANY!

      essentially, thats been the main part of my job for the last 10 years. This afternoon im doing one on eggs to test whether a certain molecule is important for eggs to sort their chromosomes into the correct cells when they divide. Ill watch an egg divide normally on a fancy microscope, and watch the chromosomes move… then take a second egg and see if the same thing happens in the presence of a special drug we have which ‘inhibits’ (stops) the protein we’re interested in —

      no one knows whether this protein is important for this… and… unless something goes wrong…. illl know the answer by teatime….

      then ill go watch the fotball

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