Went to part of the airshow on Saturday, which was fun, though v. hot in terms of weather, which makes it all the more surprising when it started raining this morning. Forecast says there'll be showers in the next two days as well.
PI will be out of town until Wednesday, so that's when we'll talk about my slides. Meanwhile I get to figure out how to make my slides less student-like on my own, which I will attempt at least, though "less student-like" is not the clearest set of instructions I've ever received.
Meanwhile, here's a set of numbers that, post-exam, my PI decided I should know. Feel free to use any of these to impress random passerby:
Size of mouse genome: 2.5x10^9
Number of chromosomes in mice: 19 autosomes and 1 sex chromosome (20 total)
Mutation rate in standard large-scaled mutagenesis screens: 10^-6 / bp
Recombination to size ratio in mice: 1 centimorgan approximates 1 megabase
(Those numbers aren't actually directly applicable to anything I'm doing / will be doing in the foreseeable future, but eh.)
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