[blueunicorn6]

I don’t know about that.

I expect their genomes to be really weird.

[Harpotoo]

Aliens hiding in plain sight:-)

[Wuli]

"We now know that the evolution of soft-bodied cephalopods involved similarly massive genome changes, but the changes are not whole-genome duplications but rather immense genome rearrangements, as if the ancestral genomes were put in a blender," explains University of Chicago neurobiologist Clifton Ragsdale."

If trying to explain that on an evolutionary basis, it suggests the cephalopods genome advanced during a period, or periods where conditions on earth were changing on rapid time scale, more so than a slow process over longer time spanss.

[SunkenCiv]

For one thing, the octopus is only female -- otherwise they'd be called octococks. /rimshot

[Getready]

Two points:
2) note the genes editing ability of mRNA...Is it possible that extraneously introduced mRNA could do the same to the cephalopod genome? What about the human genome?

2) What are the chances of “blenderized” genes ending up in a structure that is so marvelously arranged in the 4d chromosomal structure to work perfectly to help these creatures continuously survive?

[tet68]

They are NOT from around here!

[Exit148]

Ain’t nature grand!

[DannyTN]

[GreenLanternCorps]

[sauropod]

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[Svartalfiar]

Usually, changes to an animal's construction happen with mutations in its DNA blueprints. But in this case, the messenger RNA – which does the protein building – is the one making the changes.

Are they suuuure? The past year and a half the Dems have been screaming that there's no way mRNA can edit your DNA!!