> I'm a high school senior of punjabi/white descent, and I fully intend to mark my race as Hispanic.
Go ahead - it will definitely backfire. I actually could mark that when I applied (I consider myself white, they would consider me hispanic) and I chose not to, kinda gross that you would lie on your application to get ahead of your peers - why not make up an extra-curricular while you're at it?
And wouldn't it make you feel worse to know that you are at a school because you cheated to get ahead?
Yes, specialization is a good thing, and there are many dimensions on which you can measure talent. However, the correlation between some of these dimensions (mathematical ability, reading comprehension, recall, etc.) has been found to be about 0.4. That still leaves room for individual diversity of talent, but makes it clear that not everyone gets the same amount of points to invest into the skill tree.
Saying that everyone is a genius just devalues the word.
"Saying that everyone is a genius just devalues the word."
The saying is "every CHILD is a genius". (not every burned out adult). Childs have a incredibly potential, than can grow in many directions. And the saying is also more intended to the teachers, opposite to the weeding out approach. So no, it is not meant literal, it has to be understood in a context. But yes, the idea is, that the teacher treats every child, as if they have the potential to be a genious. (and I actually do believe, most do, and it is sad, that so few actually get the opportunity to develope their potential and rather learn to sit still and repeat and behave and repeat what is demanded)
" but makes it clear that not everyone gets the same amount of points to invest into the skill tree"
Probably not, but I think it is hard to measure. It is also a question what skills you consider to be relevant. Some extreme example, I heard from my sisters friend who have a mentaly handicapped child .. which clearly did not have many skills .. but a big smile the whole time, that made people happy who interacted with him. Could be considered a valuable skill for society, too.
(but I don't know, if the parents smile the time, as he is probably quite labour intensive)
(This is baseless speculation by someone who has only taken Genetics 101)
Human cell nuclei produce mRNA from DNA, which then makes it's way to the ribosome to be expressed as a chain of amino acids, or a protien. On it's way to the ribosome, it needs protection from the cell's RNA cleanup enzymes, so it leaves the nucleus with a 5' cap and a poly-A tail.
Therefore, it makes sense that a virus that wishes to hijack human ribosomes would end in a poly-A tail (a bunch of As) in order to not get destroyed by human cells.
