7. Human Life • The Explanation

A Mouse has more Genes than a Human Being – That should Humble Us.

by Sam Kneller | Nov 8, 2016 | > Read Inventory otU online, 7. Human Life

The number of genes in living organisms, humans, animals, flora does NOT correlate with intelligence. Some plants have many more genes than mankind. How do you explain that? One thing we can say for sure is that genes are certainly not the central focus of heredity. A...

Epigenetics – ‘Junk Genes’ Responsible for Regulating the Genes Themselves.

by Sam Kneller | Nov 1, 2016 | > Read Inventory otU online, 7. Human Life

Epigenetics, the study of ‘junk genes’, has made science realize they actually regulate the genes themselves. They are at the origin of ‘gene expression’, turning genes ‘on’ and ‘off.’ We’ve discussed how DNA has a...

Transposable Elements and Jumping Genes – Genes are Not Immutable but rather Plastic

by Sam Kneller | Oct 25, 2016 | > Read Inventory otU online, 7. Human Life

Transposable elements also known as jumping genes have literally reversed our understanding of the immutable gene. We now know that genes possess the quality of ever-changing plasticity. I’m going to revisit the 98.5 percent of junk DNA that is anything but. The...

Stem Cells and Differentiation: the Core of your Body’s 24/7/365 Regeneration Process

by Sam Kneller | Oct 18, 2016 | > Read Inventory otU online, 7. Human Life

Stem Cells: Life starts with one cell and this one cell develops into 400+ different types of cells: Skin, gut, brain … and these stem cells do it all your life. They do it just in time … every time. As we discuss stem cells and dissect pieces of the...

Apoptosis – Programmed Cell Death, even before Birth

by Sam Kneller | Oct 11, 2016 | > Read Inventory otU online, 7. Human Life

Apoptosis is the programmed death of billions of cells in your body every day … even before birth. Without this death, there wouldn’t be life. Cells don’t live forever in the human body; they have different life spans based on the type and function of the...

Cells … About 100 trillion of them and we have a Human Body

by Sam Kneller | Oct 4, 2016 | > Read Inventory otU online, 7. Human Life

Yes, you and I are an amalgam of these billions of billions of cells working together, each with its own cell life cycle integrated into this massive functioning ‘human body’ we call life. You have roughly thirty trillion red blood cells that circuit your...