In reading CELLS (a recent textbook) I was surprized to find only one micrograph showing genes in an actual cell. And this photo is very grainy, leading me to conclude that there is a kind of digitalization of the code, where the code-reading transcriptase RNA is reading more than the gene itself, but the area around the genes themselves. The entire area around the chromosome seems broken down into grains of molecules, extending out of the gene. Are we seeing a kind of mind/matter fusion where even matter is so grainy that it can be measured. Is this difficult idea of any merit?

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anonymous · Answer

can u explain this in other words, im not quite sure  what you are saying

anonymous · Answer

When the cell is not dividing, there are no chromosomes as such and the raw material is present in the form of thread like structures called chromatin.  Only when the cell is about to divide that the chromatin material starts to coalesce into proper chromosomes.

anonymous · Answer

not sure what your asking, but if your talking about a grainy photograph, that is probably just a result of magnification.  An image only has so many pixels, zoom in enough and it gets grainy.