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#350 – Betül Kaçar: Origin of Life, Ancient DNA, Panspermia, and Aliens
Lex Fridman Podcast
Mutational Pathways
We introduced variation at the elongation level. We found that if we introduce a different protein that is very different, the cells don't like that. If you introduce a variant that is really foreign to them, that's really distant. In our case, it was the ancestor. They really did not like the ancestor, but they were okay with their nearest cousin. So what kind of changes would you be seeing depending on the evolutionary distance of the thing you shoved into it? Exactly. That's the experiment. And you're always messing it with it in the same way for the initial condition. It's the same way.
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