Saturday 14 February 2009

Celebrating Charles Darwin - Routes: Exploring your genes

Routes - Discover the secrets in your genes.

Routes is an eight week game from Channel 4 Education in association with the Wellcome Trust. Routes is live from January 26th through to March 26th, and during that time players will be invited into a world of genetics, evolution and the human genome.

Embedded in the game, Katherine Ryan, award-winning comedian, explores her own genetic make-up, and tests her DNA to find out whether it is her genes or her environment that define who she is. Can genes make you fat? Or gay? Do they hide critical information about disease? Can Katherine blame her genetic make-up for the fact that she gets drunk on two beers?

By exploring these questions, solving puzzles, playing mini games, trading tips and collaborating on challenges, players will uncover a compelling mystery that lies at the heart of Routes itself. Click on Week 1 to start, then follow the links on the page. If you dig deep enough, who knows what you'll find?

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