Monday, October 15, 2007

Monday's Molecule #47

 

Today's molecule is the eukaryotic ribosome. That's not what you have to identify. What you have to name is the two subunits and each of the RNA components of these subunits. Trivial, common names are required.

There's an indirect direct connection between the names of these ribosome components and Wednesday's Nobel Laureate(s). In order to win you have to tell us how the components were named and supply the relevant equation. See if you can guess the Nobel Laureate. This one is not easy.

The reward goes to the person who correctly identifies the molecules and the Nobel Laureate(s). Previous free lunch winners are ineligible for one month from the time they first collected the prize. There is only ineligible candidates for this Wednesday's reward. The prize is a free lunch at the Faculty Club.

Send your guess to Sandwalk (sandwalk(at)bioinfo.med.utoronto.ca) and I'll pick the first email message that correctly identifies the molecule and the Nobel Laureate(s). Correct responses will be posted tomorrow along with the time that the message was received on my server. This way I may select multiple winners if several people get it right.

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UPDATE: We have two winners!



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