An example of an analogy used in science broadcasting:
"They sequenced, fully sequenced, the human genome. …A single chromosome stretched out like a thread of DNA could be 6 or 8 cm long. Crammed with three hundred million genetic letters. But to fit one inside a human cell, alongside forty five others for the complete set, they each have to be wound up into extremely tight balls. And some of the resulting knots it turns out are pretty hard to untangle in the lab. and the genetic patterns there are often hard to decode as well….
And these were sort of hard to get at bits of genome, I mean are they like trying to find a coin in the bottom of your pocket that you can't quite pull out?"
Roland Pease
Roland Pease introducing an episode of 'Science in Action'. Read 'Genes on steroids? The high density of science communication'.
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