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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  yes, i skimmed research papers on this, and essentially yes, fungi can produce prions that have different conformation which is beneficial for its survival.

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I guess the surprising thing is that only (?) fungi do that

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      yea, Its actually more complicated than i thought, different species utilizes thier prions differently, different functions. one species can use prions from being merged by another colony of the same species, maintaining that population instrad. although it seems only some prions are useful, and some are inert, and some are not benificial.

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• BambiDiego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Why, yes, exactly that.

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