Wow! This is really cool and I'm really surprised I didn't find this out at some point in biology. (I had one decent intro high school class, one class on genetics where something like this really should have been mentioned but we spent a large part of the class making videos of paramecia instead because the teacher had just gotten cool video equipment (...now that I type that out, it sounds even more wtf than I thought at the time), and one college class which I remember fondly as quite informative but which was mostly physiology and so makes more sense that this kind of thing wasn't mentioned.) Or my own reading, although to be fair pop!bio, not to mention academic!bio, hasn't been a large part of it.
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Date: 2020-01-07 05:07 pm (UTC)