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Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by dekhn on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:10AM (#16940854)
Those of you who are CS people who are trying to stretch this paper into more significant than it is: please go and read all the first-year biology textbooks before speculating.
Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by wuliwong on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:27AM (#16941483)
Could you possible narrow it down more than "all the first-year biology textbooks"?

This can't all be relevant??

Table of Contents

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Unit 1 The Nature of Life

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1. The Science of Biology

2. The Chemistry of Life

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Unit 2 Ecology

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3. The Biosphere

4. Ecosystems and Communities

5. Populations

6. Humans in the Biosphere

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Unit 3 Cells

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7. Cell Structure and Function

8. Photosynthesis

9. Cellular Respiration and Fermentation

10. Cell Growth and Division

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Unit 4 Genetics

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11. Introduction to Genetics

12. DNA

13. RNA and Protein Synthesis

14. Human Heredity

15. Genetic Engineering

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Unit 5 Evolution

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16. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

17. Evolution of Populations

18. Classification

19. History of Life

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Unit 6 From Microorganisms to Plants

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20. Viruses and Prokaryotes

21. “Protists” and Fungi

22. Introduction to Plants

23. Plant Structure and Function

24. Plant Reproduction and Response

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Unit 7 Animals

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25. Introduction to Animals

26. Animal Evolution and Diversity

27. Animal Systems I

28. Animal Systems II

29. Animal Behavior

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Unit 8 The Human Body

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30. Digestive and Excretory Systems

31. Nervous System

32. Skeletal, Muscular, and Integumentary Systems

33. Circulatory and Respiratory Systems

34. Endocrine and Reproductive Systems

35. Immune System and Disease

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Diversity of Life: A Visual Guide

Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by dekhn on Friday April 27, 2018 @12:00PM (#16941780)
Chapters 1, 3, 4, 6. Stay away from ecology, human biology, and anything more complicated than yeast; the extra ambiguity in those systems muddies it.
Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by keithwhor on Friday April 27, 2018 @07:53PM (#16945322)
Read the whole thing. It's all relevant. It's the world around you: you can afford to be curious.
Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by mylons on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:58AM (#16941759)
genetics and microbiology are the focus areas you need to understand this paper on a deeper level, but mostly microbio imo.
Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by laythea on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:22AM (#16940932)
I am a CS person. If the article is not readily consumable for a CS person why is it on a website called "Hacker News"? Seems like a bad submission if you ask me...
Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by Jedd on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:27AM (#16940972)
> I am a CS person. If the article is not readily consumable for a CS person why is it on a website called "Hacker News"? Seems like a bad submission if you ask me...

Like many before you, you appear to assume Hacker equates to the C in CS.

Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by laythea on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:32AM (#16941012)
Like the many that will, after me, assume Hacker to mean the C in CS. Technically, you are correct, and I agree. But I must point out, that actually, you are wrong - the general use of the word belongs to computers.
Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by laken on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:59AM (#16941224)
The word hacker isn't about computers. https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by laythea on Friday April 27, 2018 @01:40PM (#16942654)
Most people would have no idea about Richard Stallman, and I maintain that due to popular media the general public associate the word with computer technology.
Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by Ascendency on Friday April 27, 2018 @02:13PM (#16942914)
This is Hacker News, not the general public. If we don’t know who Richard Stallman or what a hacker is, who should?
Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by dekhn on Friday April 27, 2018 @11:03AM (#16941262)
I'm a biohacker (by training) but a computer hacker by vocation. It's clear the HN community has an abiding passion in the deep relationship between information and computation systems. I just want to make sure the less experienced readers don't immediately jump to making naive conclusions by making weak analogies between computers and biology.
Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by jlg23 on Friday April 27, 2018 @12:12PM (#16941896)
Because a lot of "CS persons", those who are called hackers[1], enjoy figuring things out.

I too cannot ~"readily consume" it, but I now have a few more tabs open in my browser from which I will learn a lot.

[1] in the original meaning of the word

Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by lemonberry on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:54AM (#16941186)
In the Guidelines link to at the bottom of this page under 'What to Submit':

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by laythea on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:59AM (#16941226)
I don't mean the topic is off-topic. I was talking about the level of technical detail.
Re:Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called th... by skj on Friday April 27, 2018 @01:18PM (#16942481)
For a word in common parlance, if it's not how the general population understands the word, then it's not the word's meaning.