996.ICU

About time the revolution reaches our shores. Concerns from the 996.ICU movement most certainly apply here. There's additionally the grind from the 3+ hours of daily travel time between workplace & home in the typically over-crowded metros.

The demands for a well balanced work life (wbl) are totally justified. 955 schedule, flexi-hours, work from home, are not concepts to be just spoken of but to be put to practice. Let's work smart, live healthy & be happy!

Mendelian Inheritance

Gregor Mendel was a phenomenal scientist of the nineteenth century. Actually a Monk by profession he is considered the founder of modern genetics. In the 1850-60s, in the garden of his monastery he performed systematic hybridization experiments with the Pea plant over successive generations (second - F2, third - F3, etc.). Through these experiments he was able to conclude that traits get inherited by progenies in the form of discrete traits with a perfectly binary (either/ or) characteristic from the ancestors, as opposed to the then existing notion of a blending of traits. 

The following are the laws of Mendelian inheritance:

• Law of Segregation:  During gamete (sperm or egg cell) formation, allele pairs separate out at random & only one of the alleles are carried by each gamete for each gene.
• Law of Independent Assortment: Genes for different traits segregate independently of other pairs of alleles during the formation of gametes.
• Law of Dominance: Some alleles are dominant while others are recessive. When present the dominant ones dominate.

Where,

 Human body is

  made of -> Cells                              
                                                                  (Building block of life, contain
                                                                       biomolecules such as Protein, DNA)

         containing --> Chromosomes            
                                                                 (One DNA Molecule + some proteins
                                                                       in the cell's nucleus, double helix
                                                                       shape, 46 in humans: 23 each
                                                                       inherited from either parent)

                             having     ---> Genes                     
                                                                  (Code to synthesize proteins
                                                                       & biocomponents, 2 Alleles or
                                                                        variant forms of a trait,
                                                                        one inherited per parent)

                                     that get coded to ----> Proteins   
                                                                 (Large biomolecules of amino acid
                                                                       chains, participate in vast variety
                                                                       of cellular processes & biological
                                                                       functions, metabolic reactions,
                                                                       signaling, etc. Exist within & get
                                                                       recycled by the cells)
                                                 
While the findings of Mendel were not popular initially, they were re-discovered almost half a century later. Though Mendel limited the experiments to traits that were governed by a single gene, the results were significant. These helped formed our understanding of genetics & heredity (genes) that continue to this day.

Professional

Almost all definitions of the word professional have an ethical component mentioned in the definition. Yet, we are flooded by news of frauds and malpractices from organizations across sectors and geographies, run by professionals mostly having top of the line credentials.

The article "Star-studded CVs and moral numbness" provides some interesting insights, esp. from an exercise with a batch of budding professionals from a top tier management school. The authors were perhaps dealing with a relatively young lot of individuals having less exposure (typically with <3 years work experience). Had the exercise been done within the walls of the corporate war-rooms, with hardened professionals clued into the ways of the real world, the outcome would have been totally different. Forget remorse, there would be no realization of any wrong doing. Voices of protests would be snubbed or worse, shown the exit door.