Jeans/Genes and Other Overplayed Puns

Dec 29, 2010

The staff at Jupiter Scientific presents a collection of biology jokes, though Daily Scan will let you decide which are genuinely humorous. The jeans/genes pun plays prominently on the list:

Q: What is the fastest way to determine the sex of a chromosome?
A: Pull down its genes.

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