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Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability (www.sciencealert.com)
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[–] 8 points 6 months ago (7 children)

We need some of that shit growing in our space stations. And maybe we could use to give some of its genes to ourselves to help survive out there

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Can that work? Radiation damages genes in unpredictable ways because its wavelength is smaller than the dna itself, right? How might that work for something more complex than fungi?

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    We're probably more simple than fungi. Jokes aside we're very complex creatures but each cell of ours is just so much more simple or equal in complexity to a mold. They're between 25% to 50% shared genome with us.

    Tbh all life on earth is so similar to each other one could say we're all the same exact organism just warped in a million different ways with extreme degrees of variance

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Why do you think this fungus would absorb more radiation than e.g. a similar volume of water?

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