Beauty in Biology
There really is an aesthetic quality to nature. I try to make it a point and present you with colorful but equally insightful imagery as I take you through the world of Biology. Notice in this picture the base pair stacking and the differentiation between the nitrogenous bases? Can you identify which ones are which?
And in this picture, even though simplified, there is reference to the organization of nature. You’ll recall that the dimensions of DNA are uniform throughout, and that there are approximately 10 base pairs within every one rotation of the double helix. Note how this doesn’t take into account the random assortment of the base pairs or even that the bases themselves are differently shaped! Extraordinary, isn’t it?!
Cool!
I love seeing stuff like this. Have you ever seen Fractal Art? They’re math functions graphed out to make some pretty sweet pictures. They’re absolutely stunning when photoshopped and made ‘arsty’.
So biology is really art. Which is really math. So everything is math. Become a math major. Its much more interesting when you have graphics like that though. It is alot easier these days to illustrate, for example, the human body, or chemical reactions. Very nice!