Tag: stripes
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Fingers are meat stripes?
Well, kinda. Much thanks to this video. You, presumably, know that tigers have stripes, leopards have spots, and so on. You never see a tiger that is spotted or ticked instead of striped, for example. So, why is that? How do the cells in a tiger’s skin “know” to form stripes instead of some other…
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Humans have stripes
Really. We just (normally) can’t see them. They are called Blaschko’s lines. They have to do with how your skin formed back when you were an embryo. You started out as a few cells (usually just one cell, but some people actually started as 2 or more different cells, leading to something called chimerism–which is…