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gardener · 06-27-2007, 09:53 AM

Some really curious things turn out to be genetically determined/. One is the ability to roll your tongue. My wife and my sons can, but I cannot. Another is the relative length of the second and the big toe: my second toe is longer. Then there's the ability to taste the chemical compound PTC. It depends on inheriting a particular protein called TAS2R38.

Here’s an explanation...

http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/taster.htm

But the neat deal is that proteins make music. Here, from the site above, is the way this protein sounds.

http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/TasterV2.mp3

Here’s more.

http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/foxp2.htm

http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/FoxVox.mp3

And it all sounds much like Philip Glass.

06-27-2007, 09:53 AM	#1 (permalink)
gardener Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: southern New Jersey Posts: 3,182	The Music Proteins Make Some really curious things turn out to be genetically determined/. One is the ability to roll your tongue. My wife and my sons can, but I cannot. Another is the relative length of the second and the big toe: my second toe is longer. Then there's the ability to taste the chemical compound PTC. It depends on inheriting a particular protein called TAS2R38. Here’s an explanation... http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/taster.htm But the neat deal is that proteins make music. Here, from the site above, is the way this protein sounds. http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/TasterV2.mp3 Here’s more. http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/foxp2.htm http://whozoo.org/mac/Music/FoxVox.mp3 And it all sounds much like Philip Glass. __________________ "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument." William Gibbs McAdoo. US Vice-President under Woodrow Wilson.