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• Nurgus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We share a common ancestor with mushrooms amd sea horses

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    if you go back far enough, every living species shares the same ancestor.

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You could see the short circuit in his head when I told my cousin’s husband about how slime mold has something like 13 different sexes, and that birds don’t use x/y but rather z/w.

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  • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I listened to a podcast recently about potatoes. The ones in Europe are all one species. They can’t grow variants from seeds because they have 4 chromosomes which means growing from seeds doesn’t give the same variant. They are basically clones. If a variant is lost it cannot be brought back, it’s gone for good.

    I never knew how interesting potatoes are!

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    • Brgor@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Lots of crops are like this, like apples! It’s called extreme heterozygosity.

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      • Alenalda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        One of the coolest thing about apples imo. All those varieties you love like granny Smith are literally just the same tree grafted over and over again.

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      • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That’s the big word I couldn’t remember. I didn’t know apples were the same but that really makes sense now.

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