Chapter 3: C and C Squared: Integers
As my brother and I trudged down the hallway we had nothing
to do. The only reason why we were still
in this school is the counselor said we need to make friends. How boring, people don’t need friends.
In fact when I was 9 wandered away from fathers office at
the University and ended up wandering in to a genetics class. They were talking about cloning.
The professor said, “An identical twin is a clone; so too,
are bacteria living in the same colony.
The term ‘clone’ has also been adopted by computer technology to
describe a device that mimics an actual one to enable certain software programs
to run correctly.”
As the professor ended this sentence, I stood in shock as my
father took me away back home.
As I got home, I began working in my room with tubes and
vials, by the nights end I had cloned my first colony of bacteria. By 8 AM the next morning I had cloned myself
by using my DNA.
Cloning is frowned upon, in fact one of my favorite
physicists Glenn Seaborg said, “People must understand that science is
inherently neither a potential for good nor evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to
do his bidding.”
What horse-radish I had determined. My teacher made fun of me in front of class,
because I didn't know my multiplication facts, now I cloned myself so I never
had to multiply anything ever again.
MUAH-HA-HA-HA. That is my evil
scientist laugh, it still needs work.
Cloning myself was elementary, it was the same as adding and
subtracting integers. When you add and
subtract integers on a number line you use the number line to move a particular
number of spaces either to the left or right.
When you move to the right, you are adding a positive
integer.
When you move to the left, you add a negative
number.
Of course the number line is a metaphor for DNA, and the
integers are the particular space on your DNA sequence. When you add or subtract you must change your
DNA sequence.
My parents finally found out the next day when they woke
up. He became my identical twin and it
seems that sometimes we can read each other’s mind. I decided to name him C Squared after myself
and he has come in good use, but now we argue furiously and get in to fights
often. It seems I might have to make
another clone.
