Finally got to the biology portion. It's near the end, but in a way that makes since, since biology is a fairly recent branch of science (and so much of it is delicate and depends on technological developments). ...which isn't what brought me to posting here, actually. I am posting because I read the comparison that DNA and RNA are like Spanish and Hindi. They aren't really. Their chemical properties are a lot more similar than that (heh, otherwise a bunch of the stuff I did in the lab shouldn't have worked). It's more like, say, Spanish and French. Both are romance languages derived from Latin, both share many grammatical rules and verb tenses, but the conjugations, pronounciation and spellings are often very different and even if you've never heard either language before in your life (in which case I suppose "you" might be analogous to a newly made protein), you'll still be able to tell, the first time you hear the two languages, that they are two distinctly different languages.
Definitely more similar than Hindi and Spanish, though.
Currently on page 400.
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