Reading Time: 4 minutes And the answers to our Christmas Quiz are: How many neurones does a human have? Billions Which animal has the largest brain? Bottlenose dolphin How much does a human brain weigh in comparison with our total average body weight (in percent)? 2 How many DNA samples does the MND Association’s DNA bank hold? 3,400 How…
Reading Time: 2 minutes 1.What percentage of our genes do we share with a chimp? 98 2.What percentage of our genes do we share with a mouse? 90 3.Our genetic code is wrapped up into 46 organisational structures called ‘chromosomes’. How many chromosomes does a butterfly have? 380 4.If you were to start reciting the order of your genetic…
Reading Time: < 1 minute In the tradition of newspaper Christmas quizzes or bumper crossword puzzles, I had the bright idea that we could publish something similar here. In the true Blue Peter tradition, here is one that Kelly prepared earlier – it is a genetics quiz. She was happy to note that Prof Ammar Al-Chalabi made reference to one…
