DNA seen through the eyes of a coder
Like with unix, cells are not 'spawned' - they are forked. All cells started out from your ovum which has forked itself many times since. Like processes, both halves of the fork() are (mostly) identical to begin with, but they may from then on decide to do different things. [more]
Mike Woodring sent this link along (attributing it in turn to the illustrious Tim Tabor]. Very very cool way of looking at things, though I'm not sure how I feel to learn that my DNA is struggling with massive dependency hell :)
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