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I should have loved biology

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In biology class, biology wasn't presented as a quest for the secrets of life. The textbooks wrung out the questing.

jsomers.net | I should have loved biology I should have loved biology By James Somers I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names: the Golgi apparatus and the Krebs cycle; mitosis, meiosis; DNA, RNA, mRNA, tRNA. In the textbooks, astonishing facts were presented without astonishment. Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was. I needed Lewis Thomas, who wrote in The Medusa and the Snail : For the real amazement, if you wish to be amazed, is this process. You start out

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