Tegan Taylor

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2,688 appearances 36 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2018 last heard 31 Jul

Tegan Taylor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Health Report · Genetic testing with online services, the effect of genetics on a population, safer pregnancy and antenatal care services, and why nano stuff and stem cells are like teenagers · 8 Mar 2021 podcast

Oh, oh, okay, that makes sense, but is an unexpected answer. voice-verified

Right, so this is okay, so Mike's question on snakes or spiders, uh real plot twist there. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

So it is an interesting question because like we know that we're talking about coronavirus presumably. voice-verified

Uh that the virus has infected like millions and millions and millions of people worldwide. voice-verified

And so it's not that viruses are mutating on purpose. voice-verified

Like they just mutate randomly. voice-verified

So every time a virus replicates, there's a chance that it could make a mistake in in replicating its genetic material and viruses are quite prone to doing this. voice-verified

Coronaviruses are actually better voice-verified

Then voice-verified

say flu viruses at proofreading themselves, but they still make mistakes, we all do. voice-verified

And so every now and again you know, there's mutations happening all the time. voice-verified

Every now and again one of those mutation gives the virus an advantage and so it gets passed on. voice-verified

And so those mutations kind of accumulate. voice-verified

And so a mutation that makes a virus more transmissible ends up being advantageous. voice-verified

So even though there hasn't been as much pressure on the virus, uh, although we have put pressures on it like social distancing, and so yeah, a mutation that makes it more transmissible, if we're social distancing, gives the virus an additional advantage. voice-verified

But um but interesting. voice-verified

Interestingly. voice-verified

I think Lizzie also said in her message about why does a virus need to kill its host as it's more in its own interest to keep the infected people alive so that it can pass itself on. voice-verified

That's absolutely right. voice-verified

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