Copy-Paste Larry Tesler

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Useless information that I would like to share!

Larry wasn't the first to discover copy paste.

In 1940, scientist Barbara McClintock discovered that if she damaged the DNA in corn maize, the plant would reconstruct the damaged section by making a copy of other parts of the DNA strand, then pasting them into the damaged area. DNA was the first to use copy past




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