Polyploidy in sea urchins
15/06/08 13:39
One thing I remember from
my zoology student days is that nicotine causes
polyploidy in sea urchins...a useful interjection if
you can’t think of anything to say at a dinner party.
It means that they end up with more copies of
chromosomes in their cells than they are supposed to
have. What I don’t get, and call me thick, is how do
they light up their cigarettes in the first
place????