[ The explanation she had been envisioning was a little simpler than that, so almost immediately, it goes a little over her head. Her eyes widen in surprise at one unfamiliar term after the other, but it also comes with a smile. It's the sort of overwhelmed excitement that made her quite passionate about learning, since it wasn't as if there was much else to do in her tower. Once she found a subject that was wholly unfamiliar to her, it tended to promise at least a week's worth of interest before she reached a dead end, or on occassion, continued along with it.

But she won't pester him about this, she thinks. Not now, anyways. He's just arrived, so bothering him with her curiosity about something that unrelated would be insensitive! ]

Wow— That's... I must have read it in passing, but I don't think we knew that much about it. [ She laughs, realizing it's probably silly to include herself in that, but whatever. ] So when you have someone's, um, DNA, can you tell what they look like?