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Science Tattoos: Remember Your Punnett Square

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Jenny writes: “I’m nearing the end of getting my undergrad in Zoology and I decided to do something to commemorate it. I like the simplicity of a Punnett square and I like that such complicated theories that make up Mendelian genetics can be illustrated in 6 lines and 12 letters. And since the letters are ambiguous I decided to go for ‘E’ for my last initial.”

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October 18th, 2008 9:10 PM by Carl Zimmer in Science Tattoo Emporium | 2 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

2 Responses to “Science Tattoos: Remember Your Punnett Square”

1. Mus Says:
October 18th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

That’s one shiny arm!
2. Nomskii Says:
October 19th, 2008 at 3:07 am

Thats a lot of Es on one hand.

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