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Powering the complexity of life with Michael Levin and Nick Lane | Reason with Science | Biology | Evolution
Reason with Science
The Evolution of Mitochondria in the Germline
mitochondrial DNA is generally said to be at least evolving about 10 times faster than the nuclear genes. We've just gone through rounds of segregation during early germline development, where you produce something like six or seven million ougonia which are dividing by mitosis. And then we start fusing them together and transferring material between them. The one thing you can't do is trash all of your ion channels, because yes, and we know that they're sensitive to thatBecause we can make two headed worms and and you know, worms that look like all kinds of crazy stuff. That's very easy by targeting these capture. But if you lose a certain ability to generate electrically, maybe it's
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