Live and Let Diploid

Author: kaufman

Date: July 2, 2010

by kaufman
7-02-10
Doctor, have the test results come back? Have you found out what's going on with Otis?
Indeed I have. Your baby has a rare condition I've never seen before.
I looked at some of his cells under a microscope, and half of them had one chromosome too many. But the rest of them had one chromosome too few!
So lay it on me, Doc. What does this all mean?
Well, it's something called "Up and Down Syndrome" ...