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This unassuming fern has the largest known genome—and no one knows why
Science.ORG ^ | May 31, 2024 | ASHLEY STIMPSON

Posted on 05/31/2024 11:41:20 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 05/31/2024 11:41:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping!...................


2 posted on 05/31/2024 11:41:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Because there’s no theory that predicts things like that.


3 posted on 05/31/2024 11:46:31 AM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Red Badger

There is ONE guy who knows and that’s God Almighty.


4 posted on 05/31/2024 12:05:55 PM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of the most stupid)
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To: Red Badger

It has the highest intelligence of all the ferns and other than a few incidents in the Paleozoic era, has been mostly peaceful.


5 posted on 05/31/2024 12:06:01 PM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: Red Badger

“But now researchers “know they have the ability to insert themselves in nearby genes and provide them with new functions or silence them.””

Uh oh. I have a real bad feeling about this. As if the globalist ghouls playing god don’t already have enough evil goals to tinker with....(not kidding...lol).


6 posted on 05/31/2024 12:14:25 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Danie_2023

I’ve seen this movie.

It doesn’t end well...................


7 posted on 05/31/2024 12:23:59 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ifinnegan

Genome size past a certain point is not correlated to complexity of the organism.

Amoebas have large genomes for example.

A lot of DNA is along for the ride simply because it can.


8 posted on 05/31/2024 12:25:59 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Red Badger

“I’ve seen this movie.

It doesn’t end well...................”

No. Not well at all. At least, not for us hoomans.


9 posted on 05/31/2024 12:26:40 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Red Badger

It’s just data. When they do decode it, it will read “Your time is up. Best regards, God” Bummer.


10 posted on 05/31/2024 12:31:24 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Red Badger

In their ignorance, scientists don’t have an explanation for certain DNA sequences, so they call it “junk” DNA. THEN it turns out not to be.

That’s why it’s hard to trust them when they talk about settled science.


11 posted on 05/31/2024 12:50:29 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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12 posted on 05/31/2024 12:52:16 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: packagingguy

No one knows.

No theories have ever predicted genomic findings.

As opposed to molecular biological, with RNA translation being the classic example.


13 posted on 05/31/2024 1:18:32 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Red Badger

Exactly


14 posted on 05/31/2024 3:47:33 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Red Badger

Yeah, my fern’s always bragging about it, what a pain. ;^)


15 posted on 05/31/2024 4:32:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Red Badger; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks Red Badger.

16 posted on 05/31/2024 9:21:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Tell your fern it better straighten up or it’s going to the “
Fern-ace.


17 posted on 05/31/2024 9:44:17 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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I told it I’d hire the Mob to plant it.


18 posted on 06/01/2024 6:02:55 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

If that happens, it’ll be a frond memory.


19 posted on 06/01/2024 6:52:13 AM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Red Badger

And to think we get excited when a chubby, drooling, human baby manages for its thumb to find its mouth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN8c_X0LNcg&ab_channel=Learjet15


20 posted on 06/01/2024 7:04:03 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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