Using a chain of deduction, we might assume that there is a reason for doing this. For example, I would be interested to know how this bacteria behaves in the presence of ionizing radiation.
One theory might be that it was more than usually resistant. But in turn, this raises a second question: just because it has lots of copies of its genome, can it use them?
That is, can it swap out a defective genome for a working one, or use a copy for error correction?
The bacterium seems a lot like my dear departed mother who was a child of the depression and WWII and couldn’t bring herself to throw any thing away.
Good point.
This is consistent with a model that says that the cell controls genome expression and not the other way around.
Evidence that the chicken came first.
It’s the Michael Moore of bacterium.
“ For example, I would be interested to know how this bacteria behaves in the presence of cheeseburgers.