Saturday, February 27, 2010

Molecular Biology- DNA Fork & Replication

Just was looking into the subject on account of a BioMed stock I purchased. Was watching a video on YouTube regarding DNA Replication

So there's a part where they explain that the double helix of the DNA strand gets forked into two separate strands.

One strand gets smoothly "copied" just as soon as it's spooling out of the fork location. Continuously in one direction.

The other strand (because of it's directionality) needs to be taken section by section at a time and is copied backwards.

Compare all of that with ויסע ויבא ויט (Shemot 14) and it's pretty striking.

יום הששי ויכולו השמים

יום הששי ויכולו השמים

Besides for the most obvious of questions as to the splitting of the שם הויה in half between the sixth and seventh day I find it more than interesting upon examining the second half of ויכולו השמים

the "male" vav (ו) placed with the "female" כלה and the "female" heh (ה) placed with the "male" שמים. Never noticed that before....