Exciting news for some members of my family this week, my little sister and Dad both submitted photographs to the Science Snaps portion of Science Week Ireland 2011 on the theme "The Chemistry of Life". My Dad came second in the general public division with one photo and highly commended with another while my sister won the senior secondary school division outright. Their photos appeared in yesterday's Science Monthly supplement of the Irish Times which was distributed to schools across the country. Well done, hup the mighty Mcs!!!
"Love is Sweet" by my legendary little sister.
This couple are on a "sciencey" dinner date and consuming models of glucose molecules as most of the energy for life comes from metabolising glucose(I'm acting at this waitress in this shot!)
This couple are on a "sciencey" dinner date and consuming models of glucose molecules as most of the energy for life comes from metabolising glucose(I'm acting at this waitress in this shot!)
Some scientists propose the chemical origin of life might be RNA as RNA could potentially catalyse reactions and copy itself (RNA world hypothesis, Wikipedia). RNA is made from chains of the bases adenine, cytosine, guanine and uracil. The bases are represented here as the four different colours mixing together in a primordial soup and beginning to form a chain.
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