Cracking Your Personal Code
Like Duolingo, but for Cracking Your Personal Code. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in Cracking Your Personal Code
- Each parent carries a hidden 'quiet' gene for blue eyes
- Parents pass on only half of their genetic information
- A child must inherit the 'quiet' gene from both parents for it to show up
- The specific half passed on is randomized for every child
- How recessive traits can appear in children of parents who don't show them
- The process of genetic shuffling that creates a unique individual
- Dominant traits mask the presence of recessive ones
- Recessive traits require a matching pair to be visible
- Distinguishing between 'loud' and 'quiet' genetic signals
- Genetic variations change the shape of olfactory or taste receptors
- Genes act as the blueprint for building physical taste receptors
- Receptors can detect specific chemical compounds (like aldehydes) that others cannot
- The brain's perception of 'bitter' depends on whether a receptor successfully sends a signal
- Specific genes like OR6A2 are linked to the 'soapy' cilantro experience
- The TAS2R38 gene determines how strongly we perceive bitterness in vegetables like broccoli
- Why the same food can taste fundamentally different to two different people
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Cracking Your Personal Code the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
When a parent passes traits to a child, how much of their total genetic information do they contribute?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where Cracking Your Personal Code takes you
Ever wonder why you have your mother's eyes or why cilantro tastes like soap to some people? Explore how your unique genetic blueprint shapes your world and your health.
- 1
Spotting Genetics in Your Life
- Why You Look Like Your Family
- The Mystery of Weird Food Tastes
- Hidden Talents and Physical Traits
- Predicting Your Future Health
- 2
Reading the Instruction Manual
- How Your Body Follows a Recipe
- The Four Letters of Life
- What Happens When a Letter Changes
- Dominant vs. Quiet Traits
- Nature vs. Nurture
- The Truth About Genetic Testing Kits
- 3
The Future of Human Design
- Editing Genes Like a Word Document
- Curing Diseases Before Birth
- The Ethics of Designer Traits
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Cracking Your Personal Code is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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