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The screen.. had several DNA strands on it.. the twisted ladder shape was not mistakable. He saw this go by incredibly fast, and there were dozens on the screen. Was the TV.. Analyzing it somehow? No.. He know better than that.. TVs cant work two ways.. well.. unless you modified it.. He simply stood in awe at the screen, watching the strands fly by, eventually morph into a single Chromosome. He felt slightly nauseous.. and laid down. He got up just as quickly as he sat down, and ran to a bookshelf. He fumbled through, and picked out "Modern Biology". He got absorbed in the book, learning all he could about Genetics. If only... His thought was interrupted by the mechanical clunking of a switchboard. Somehow, his ancient mechanical calculator was moving on its own. It wasn't even plugged in! It added thousands of sums in seconds, moving the switches so fast the metal began to glow a dull red.