Betül Kaçar

It's a different story.

But overall, you see high level of identity that is kept intact, especially if the component is essential for life.

Yeah, so let me describe to you what we did in that experiment.

We took bacteria, we perturbed the elongation in all of these with different variants.

So we had an initial set of a group of bacteria that we had.

We then subjected these bacteria to evolution in the lab.

First of all, we knew we broke it because upon engineering, we measured what's going on with the cell.

It's not growing as well.

They're not healthy.

We can see it with our eyes.

We can measure it.

That if they were generating an offspring every 20 minutes, now it is 40 minutes.

So we really messed them up.

They don't want to work with this thing.

They don't want each other, but they need each other.

So we created that situation for them.

Which is good because we wanted to see how they will cooperate with each other to fix this problem.

Because we know that that's not the condition that they want to live in.

Especially when they know what they can do.

So with that, we subjected these organisms to evolution in the lab.