• Question: do you know the periodic table of by heart?

    Asked by 466gdna29 to Clare on 13 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Clare Harding

      Clare Harding answered on 13 Nov 2014:


      Nope! I know some of the atomic weights of the elements by heart (like carbon and nitrogen) but in biology the periodic table is not so important, for me it is more important to know the genetic code that translates DNA into proteins, for example ATG makes the amino acid methionine.

Comments