In my drawing I decided to do a scientific cartoon. After several weeks of focusing on prions, it has been made quite clear that prions are proteins that can adopt two forms; normal, and misfolded. One single misfolded protein shouldn’t seem like a big deal, however, in the case of prions, the misfolded proteins are able to affect the normal proteins and cause a whole population of normal proteins to become misfolded and out of shape. Because prions have this specific behavior, I made a cartoon about Adam and Eve. In this cartoon, Adam represents a normal prion and Eve represents a misfolded prion. After interacting with Eve, Adam (or in this cartoon, his children), all become “misfolded” until the population is so misformed, it is unable to continue. While this cartoon is good to give a basic understanding of prions, not all of its analogies are consistent. If this were to be purely analogous, Adam himself would have become misfolded.
Because it is not purely analogous, I have also added a picture of a normal prion and a misfolded prion at the bottom.