Posted by Dr. Science on 03/22/2013 in
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What mechanism causes the genetic material in mammalian cells to supercoil during mitosis?
———- from Ernie Pthalenharmer of Schnedectady, NY
Super anything is a tribute to Funk. Remember “Superfly is Superbad?” Supercoiling was actually invented in 1971 by George Clinton, the psychedelic papa of Funk. It was a hairstyle that involved wrapping dreadlocks around a super-cooled test tube of liquid helium. The coils were then treated with super glue. As part of the “hundredth monkey syndrome”, which holds that whenever anything develops anywhere in creation all creation has access to it, mitochondria began to copy Clinton’s hairstyle. I’ve heard that another Clinton, Bill, has influenced many rastafarians to smoke but not inhale.
