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- From: cdminter@icaen.uiowa.edu (Corey D Minter)
- Subject: dna.h
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.202329.22353@icaen.uiowa.edu>
- Summary: I found the genentic code, no really :)
- Keywords: dna c header file
- Sender: usenet@icaen.uiowa.edu (UseNet News daemon)
- Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:23:29 GMT
- Lines: 122
-
- I couldn't decide whether to call this post...
- "Hey, I've Cracked the Genetic Code!" or "Who Typed MAKE? No One It is a
- Boostrap Program." or "Who Created the SysAdmin? (Of course there is no
- SysAdmin)" are you following along? Great!
-
- Anyway, I dug this out of a directory here from the ISCA bbs...
- ===============================================================================
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 91 13:57:29 hst
- From: Timothy Newsham <newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>
-
- For many years molecular biologists have been mystified by the fact that
- very little of an organism's DNA seems to serve any useful function.
-
- I have solved the mystery. The reason why only 30% of human DNA performs
- any useful function is that the rest of it is comments.
-
- Once we decode a typical human genome, we see that the contents begin as
- follows:
-
- /* HUMAN_DNA.H
- *
- * Human Genome
- * Version 2.1
- *
- * (C) God
- */
-
- /* Revision history:
- *
- * 0000-00-01 00:00 1.0 Adam.
- * 0000-00-02 10:00 1.1 Eve.
- * 0000-00-03 02:11 1.2 Added penis code to male version. A bit messy
- * will require a rewrite later on to make it neater.
- * 0017-03-12 03:14 1.3 Added extra sex drive to male.h; took code from
- * elephant_dna.c
- * 0145-10-03 16:33 1.4 Removed tail.
- * 1115-00-31 17:20 1.5 Shortened forearms, expanded brain case.
- * 2091-08-20 13:56 1.6 Opposable thumbs added to hand() routine.
- * 2501-04-09 14:04 1.7 Minor cosmetic improvements - skin colour made
- * darker to match my own image.
- * 2909-07-12 02:21 1.8 Dentition inadequate; added extra 'wisdom'
- * teeth. Must remember to make mouth bigger to
- * compensate.
- * 4501-12-31 14:18 1.9 Increase average height.
- * 5533-02-12 17:09 2.0 Added gay option, triggered by high population
- * density, to try and slow the overpopulation
- * problem.
- * 6004-11-04 16:11 2.1 Made forefinger narrower to fit hole in centre
- * of CD.
- */
-
- /* Standard definitions
- */
-
- #define SEX male
- #define HEIGHT 1.84
- #define RACE caucasian
-
- /* Include inherited traits from parent DNA files.
- *
- * Files must be pre-processed with MENDEL program to provide proper
- * inheritance features.
- */
-
- #include "mother.h"
- #include "father.h"
-
- #infndef FATHER
- #warn("Father unknown - guessing/n")
- #include "bastard.h"
- #endif
-
- /* Set up sex-specific functions and variables
- */
- #include <sex.h>
-
- /* Kludged code - I'll re-deisgn this lot and re-write it as a proper
- * library sometime soon.
- */
- struct genitals
- {
- #ifdef MALE
- Penis *jt;
- #endif
- /* G_spot*g; Removed for debugging purposes */
- #ifdef FEMALE
- Vagina *p;
- #endif
- }
-
- /* Initialization bootstrap routine - called before DNA duplication.
- * Allocates buffers and sets up protein file pointers
- */
- DNA *zygote_initialize(Sperm *, Ovum *);
-
- /* MAIN INITIALIZATION CODE
- *
- * Returns structures containing pre-processed phenotypes for the
- * organism to display at birth.
- *
- * Will be improved later to make output less ugly.
- */
-
- Characteristic *lookup_phenotype(Identifier *i);
-
- ...and so on.
-
- [Note that God uses three-space tabs]
- [Make sure to call Hell when it comes back up soon]
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-
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-
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