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April 13, 2010 6:11 PM Subscribe
Once I saw a drawing accompanying Jacques Monod's biochemical maxim "What is true of E. coli is true of the elephant." Can you help me find it again?
As I remember it, the elephant and the bacterium were pretty much the same shape and size, like, kind of blobby coccobacilliary rectangles. It was definitely more whimsical than realistic. The caption looked like it was set in an early machine-rendered typeface, like you might see describing a figure in a journal from the sixties through the eighties, if that helps at all. High resolution or a citation (so I can find it in print) would be AWESOME, of course.
As I remember it, the elephant and the bacterium were pretty much the same shape and size, like, kind of blobby coccobacilliary rectangles. It was definitely more whimsical than realistic. The caption looked like it was set in an early machine-rendered typeface, like you might see describing a figure in a journal from the sixties through the eighties, if that helps at all. High resolution or a citation (so I can find it in print) would be AWESOME, of course.
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The correct translation is "Tout ce qui est vrai pour le Colibacille est vrai pour l’éléphant"
posted by sciencegeek at 4:28 AM on April 14, 2010