I work in a related field and found this a helpful overview that filled in some gaps of my knowledge that I probably should have known already and I’m looking forward to the follow ups. I do think that this would likely be a very hard read for a layman who wasn’t already pretty familiar with genetics and you might consider making an even more basic version of this. Lots of jargon is dropped without explanation, for example.
Yeah, as someone without a ton of pre-existing biology knowledge, there was definitely a lot of words and terms you used that I had to look up. I think I still got value out of it, but I do think my understanding of stuff is still pretty shaky given that I don’t seem to have a lot of the foundations this post requires.
I work in a related field and found this a helpful overview that filled in some gaps of my knowledge that I probably should have known already and I’m looking forward to the follow ups. I do think that this would likely be a very hard read for a layman who wasn’t already pretty familiar with genetics and you might consider making an even more basic version of this. Lots of jargon is dropped without explanation, for example.
Yeah I probably fell victim to https://xkcd.com/2501/
Making a more simplified version is a good idea, and I’ll probably do it after I’m done with the other posts.
Yeah, as someone without a ton of pre-existing biology knowledge, there was definitely a lot of words and terms you used that I had to look up. I think I still got value out of it, but I do think my understanding of stuff is still pretty shaky given that I don’t seem to have a lot of the foundations this post requires.