Where nothing is fed, nothing can grow, so nothing can die. “The Antipodes” and “Infinite Life” are both waypoints in Baker’s thinking about suffering, but, for all its references to pain-as-hellfire, “Infinite Life” isn’t infernal. As they starve, their metabolisms slow, and, for some, their symptoms recede. At a clinic north of San Francisco, patients are fasting to arrest the diseases-cancer, chronic Lyme-that are consuming them. It’s also a surprisingly sincere, even passionate answer to her earlier horror-satire’s question about affliction in art. A Biblical storm rises outside, and reality cracks open, as it sometimes does in a Baker play, to let the uncanny come through.īaker’s latest comic drama, the much anticipated and pandemic-delayed “Infinite Life,” at the Atlantic, is “Antipodes” ’s exact opposite: arid where the 2017 play is flooded featuring mostly women, with a single, token man. The entertainment industry’s appetite for narrative is bottomless, and, as the writers keep offering up private stories to feed it, the auto-cannibalizing starts to go wrong. It looks a lot like a Los Angeles writers’ room, where a table of seven men and one frequently interrupted woman generate plot ideas by relaying intimate anecdotes from their own lives. The size of the carbon atom is based on its van der Waals radius.In “The Antipodes,” Annie Baker’s deadpan satire from 2017, the playwright, having spent some time writing for television, showed us her version of Hell. In a sperm cell, a specialized set of tiny support proteins (protamines) pack the DNA down to about one-sixth the volume of a mitotic chromosome. Histones organize the DNA and keep it from getting tangled, much like thread wrapped around a spool. A human sperm cell contains just one copy each of 23 chromosomes.Ī chromosome is made up of genetic material (one long piece of DNA) wrapped around structural support proteins (histones). It has also been duplicated, so there are actually two identical copies stuck together at their middles. The X chromosome is shown here in a condensed state, as it would appear in a cell that's going through mitosis. Most of the cytoplasm has been squeezed out in order to make the sperm an efficient torpedo-like swimming machine. Third, the head of a sperm cell is almost all nucleus. Second, the DNA in a sperm cell is super-condensed and compacted into a highly dense form. First, there's less DNA in a sperm cell than there is in a non-reproductive cell How can an X chromosome be nearly as big as the head of the sperm cell? However, the moreįamiliar "adenine" label makes it easier for people to recognize it as one of the building blocks of DNA. Includes the sugar deoxyribose and a phosphate group in addition to the nitrogenous base. It would be more accurate to label the nucleotide deoxyadenosine monophosphate, as it Adenine refers to a portion of the molecule, the The label on the nucleotide is not quite accurate. The most powerful electron microscopes can resolve molecules and even individual atoms. Resolution is still limited by the wavelength of the electron beam, but this wavelength is much smaller than that of visible light. Electron microscopes shoot a high-voltage beam of electrons onto or through an object, which deflects and absorbs some of the electrons. To see anything smaller than 500 nm, you will need an electron microscope. The most powerful light microscopes can resolve bacteria but not viruses. The power of a light microscope is limited by the wavelength of visible light, which is about 500 nm. Light microscopes use a system of lenses to magnify an image. It's even possible to make out structures within the cell, such as the nucleus, mitochondria and chloroplasts. Smaller cells are easily visible under a light microscope. A magnifying glass can help you to see them more clearly, but they will still look tiny. That means that under the right conditions, you might be able to see an amoeba proteus, a human egg, and a paramecium without using magnification. The smallest objects that the unaided human eye can see are about 0.1 mm long. Some cells are visible to the unaided eye
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