• zarathustrad@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    As someone who has experienced Post graduate biology, at that point explaining some things does reach the level of “trust me bro” when speaking to people that have no baseline biology knowledge.

    Do you want a series of 1 hour lectures and a few thousand pages of reading material? No? Then you just need to trust the experts.

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      4 days ago

      I’ll settle for some unlikely and interesting bits out of context, such as the existence of single-cell dogs.

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          2 days ago

          I’m not a biologist myself, so this explanation might be full of errors, but the gist of it is:

          A dog got cancer. Cancer tissue is a part of your body with the same genetic information, just growing uncontrollably, right? Well, one of the cancer cells got separated and somehow learnt to survive on its own, reproducing asexually and started a lineage of a new single-cell organism that still exists to this day.

          This single-cell organism has the same DNA as the dog. Genetically speaking it is a dog.

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            Cancer tissue is a part of your body with the same genetic information, just growing uncontrollably, right?

            I have no idea. Don’t ask me to verify this stuff!

            one of the cancer cells got separated and somehow learnt to survive on its own, reproducing asexually and started a lineage of a new single-cell organism that still exists to this day.

            This single-cell organism has the same DNA as the dog. Genetically speaking it is a dog.

            I regret asking!