Ass't Man sets up great end cap displays, but he's stuck on deep, dark colors--what we see in spring before anything greens and blooms. (He's Taurus, the bull--they love beauty, consistency, and Earth.)
When AM's on vacation, I brighten up an end cap. Last week it was in the seventies and lilacs started to bloom. Enough with the brown pottery!
I was thinking about how complete DNA exists in (almost) every cell in our body. (Not in sperm or eggs, red blood cells, or the dead parts of fingernails and hair.)
If they cloned you from ear cells or a little toe, the clone would be all the things you were born with.
Would Ass't Man's clone be stuck on Earth colors and have a personality that leans toward mushroom?
I don't know--DNA can be weirdly specific, so maybe so?
I looked it up, and yeah, favorite color has to do with eye structure (heh, not astrology!)––retinal cone photoreceptors––which is DNA determined. Surely personal associations come into it too...
BELOW: 3-dimensional computer models of DNA packing in a nucleosome, from "How your body packs a metre of DNA inside every cell", Cosmos, 2017.
