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wheatgrass_feetgrass t1_j6yyfol wrote
Reply to comment by Rob_Bligidy in TIFU by getting the same thrifted cups as someone I know by transcendentdanae
This is how I stay sane. Fighting someone's crazy doesn't work half the time. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. Sometimes you gotta just let someone get away with harmless crazy. But, if you're lucky, you can do more than that. You can join in. Lean in to their crazy, amplify it, back them into a crazy corner of their own creation. Best case scenario they actually have to feel the effects of their lunacy, and it causes them to reflect and repent. Worst case scenario you have a little fun.
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Reply to comment by ikefalcon in Given that reproduction is difficult or impossible when both animals have different numbers of chromosomes, how did so many species evolve to have so many different numbers of them? by MercurioLeCher
>Human chromosome 2 has a vestigial (unused due to no longer being needed) extra centromere and 2 vestigial telomeres found inside the chromosome sequence.
Goddammit that's cool.
I can't be sure of it quite yet, but I have a feeling sequencing the entire genome is the single greatest human breakthrough in my lifetime. I was in middle school when my science teacher told us it had been done for the first time. When I was in college I toured a sequencing facility where it was being done for outrageous cost per sequence on machines bigger than my house. Last year I got my own DNA fully sequenced, every single base pair, for about two day's wage.
Reading your own ancient programming code letter by letter is a weird, almost disassociating experience.
wheatgrass_feetgrass t1_j50kn4u wrote
Reply to comment by Bax_Cadarn in Given that reproduction is difficult or impossible when both animals have different numbers of chromosomes, how did so many species evolve to have so many different numbers of them? by MercurioLeCher
The sex chromosomes are unique though. The X chromosome is the only chromosome that is almost fully functional whether there's 1 or more copies. The Y chromosome is not necessary for life, though it does serve a function besides "make boy", as missing it or duplicating it is not a side effect free situation as in XO and XYY like you pointed out.
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Reply to comment by Claycrusher1 in Given that reproduction is difficult or impossible when both animals have different numbers of chromosomes, how did so many species evolve to have so many different numbers of them? by MercurioLeCher
When you reproduce, your chromosomes are split in half. One gamete will end up with 22 and one with 23. This will only create a viable gamete if the one with 22 includes the extra long boy but more importantly, that the set with 23 doesn't include the extra long boy. Duplicate genes aren't any better. Most trisomy conditions are incompatible with life.
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Reply to comment by ryry1237 in [WP] Humanity has finally reached a population of 10B. What should have only been mildly interesting became top news when the clouds world round said, "Data limit reached, please upgrade membership to continue growing your civilization." The population has been unable to grow since. by AurumArgenteus
Loop. Hole.
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Reply to comment by GrunkleStanwhich in [WP] Your super power is preventing collateral damage. While the public thinks you're useless, all the other heroes really like you because they can go bonkers all out while you're around. by Time_Significance
Haha this is so great. I wonder if his fellow heroes are insured. Although I'm not sure putting organics back together would be a clean process. This could go pretty deep where side effects start appearing and he realizes the way his power work is kind of dark and he's actually rewinding time on a micro level or something. Or that he's been tricking the cosmic capitalist force that granted him this power by saying stuff is insured but actually isn't and he has to start a campaign to insure the entire world as a technicality.
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Reply to comment by toss_my_potatoes in See lifelike facial reconstructions of a medieval Scottish woman, priest and bishop by unheated1
Find an attractive young gal who's been backpacking for a year, that would be a better representation. Smooth, hydrated skin, and cosmetic grooming seem a step too far. I mean unless the photo is if we extracted DNA from the skull and cloned this person, this is what she'd look like now in which case, yeah ok, let's make her!
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Reply to comment by AbouBenAdhem in Is there a genetic disease where the heterozygote has more severe disease symptoms than the homozygote? by Altranite-
This is how I interpreted it as well. The issue is more of the mosiaic distribution of the different tissue. It ends up patchy like a tortoise shell cat's fur.