Athena Aktipis
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When the DNA is, you know, lining back up, there would be like chunks that are weird if things, you know, have gotten replicated too much.
Or there might be other mechanisms that allow for the sort of, you know, compilers and detectors of the genome to get in there and sort of figure out what's going on.
Again, figure out and then, you know, clip things out if necessary or, you know, get rid of cells that might actually have, you know, so much.
Jumping DNA in there that it's like, oh, maybe we just lose this one.
So.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, yeah.
It's likely that some of those mechanisms are at work now, whether that is, you know, providing any specific benefits for those genes other than just, you know, they're replicating themselves.
And so they replicate more, right?
It's sort of this just, you know, default of, you know, the things that are good at replicating end up replicating more.
But yeah, I think that there's...
you know, there are a lot of open questions still about what exactly is going on with a lot of the DNA that is, you know, are these many copies, right?
Because sometimes you can actually have sort of differentiation of function that begins because you've had, you know, you have like two copies of a gene and then you can actually have one do one thing and one specialize on the other.
So there's,
you know, potential functionalities that can come from that in the medium term.
But, you know, they're also, I mean, we just, the fact is we don't understand still a lot about how we go from genotype to phenotype, especially with sort of all the dynamism that comes from, you know, how...
how we're affected by our environment, how cells are affected by the cells around them.
It's really, really hard to drill down to the time frame and the spatial scale that we would need to be looking at to really understand
understand what's going on right we we just don't have great tools yet for like getting so minuscule into you know what the function is uh or even just what they're what they're doing even if it's not like functional from an evolutionary perspective so lots of open questions there that are that are cool so
Well, I mean, I think we can probably go all the way back to the origins of life and replication in general, but we don't know exactly what those entities looked like.
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