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Fun Fact: Siamese cats have a point mutation in the enzyme tyrosinase, which means melanin is only produced at lower temperatures. This is why the 'cold' parts of the cat (tail, face, ears, and paws) are dark, whereas everything else is white due to a lack of melanin.

Fun Fact: 'That which replicates fastest, and degrades slowest, predominates.' Anything that can replicate can evolve, even single molecules of RNA.

Fun Fact: SynBio was used to produce polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), a biodegradable plastic made from engineered bacteria!

Fun Fact: The DNA artwork in the IBRB shows DNA in its left-handed form, when the majority of it is actually right-handed in real life.

Fun Fact: Why don't ants get sick? Because they have little anty bodies

Fun Fact: Yeast is Turing complete.

Fun Fact: I come from a 500 people village in the middle of nowhere

Fun Fact: The first modern antibiotic was arsenic-based.

Fun Fact: You can actually engineer E. coli to produce artemisinin to treat Malaria!

Fun Fact: You know what's the ultimate eco-friendly car? An "artificial leaf" - using sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into low-emission fuels like ethanol and propanol (all hail biomimicry!)