The post-grad student is scooping eyeballs out of the sacrificed subject's forehead with tweezers. The question is whether they rely on c-opsin photopigments like normal vertebrate eyes, or protostome r-opsin visual chemistry (implying that Hera used sophisticated genetic-transfer capabilities to create Hundred-Eyed Argus with the compound-eye ommatidia of an arthropod).
Unfortunately Principal Investigator Juno has dropped the whole handful on the peacock's tail while copping a feel of the post-grad's boobie. Is this professional behaviour? IS IT BOGROLL. Learn from this teachable moment, Marsden Foundation; perhaps next time you will award the research grant to the "Argus' Eyeballs: Ciliary or Rhabdomeric Photoreceptors?" proposal put forward by the responsible and well-regarded team at Riddled Research Laboratory.
The other research assistant at the right is ready with the flask of monoclonal antibody that will fluoresce bright green if -- consistent with the c-opsin theory -- phosphodiesterase is present. Right now she is having second thoughts about the project and is quietly wondering how to switch laboratories.
See, we are lining up the experimental subjects already.
Belatedly Updated with Bonus Eyeball Kid.
6 comments:
Hey! You got a man's head in your lap! May I cup your breast?
Those heady days of your...
your'n, I should've said.
Does Riddled Laboratories promise not to use child labor?
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where are the Little People?
Your subject seems to be a real looker.
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