A GAP Ad Celebrity Speaks to a Geneticist.

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This is a GTPase Activating Protein... "GAP" - get it? Nevermind...

CELEBRITY: Who are you?

SCIENTIST: I am a geneticist.

CELEBRITY: Like, is that a big word for someone who is not as cool as me?

...and so on

Another one of my geneticist pieces. Read it all here at the always marvelous Inkling.

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