The Geneticists Top Ten

You know you're a born geneticist when:

10. Your Halloween costume is "Taq-man" instead of "Pac-Man".

9. You are not offended by animal excrement. In fact, you are delighted to receive as much as possible (for its potential genetic yield.)

8. The word "mutation" holds only a positive connotation for you.

7. You spell the word "cat" in a sentence and you can't shake that it just doesn't look right to you.

6. You cannot watch forensic crime shows because their methods are so fake.

5. You begin to attribute female shopping patterns to the X chromosome.

4. You get a haircut and it bothers you to leave the shop with so much of your genetic material lying on the floor.

3. You plan to have your YSTR and/or mitochondrial sequences engraved on your headstone.

2. You speak in acronyms so much so that non-geneticists think you're speaking a foreign language, ie: SNP, YAP, GATA, TAGA, etc.

and the number one reason you know you're a born geneticist:

1. You feel that Arnold Schwarzenegger may be the missing link.

(Inspired by Dr. Michael Hammer, Bruce Walsh, and Taylor Edward's presentations at the 2nd International Conference on Genetic Genealogy - 2005 - Washington, DC)