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Platypus Genome: by Nature Video

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Uploaded by on Dec 10, 2008

The duck-billed platypus is a truly unique animal; a monotreme with almost no close relatives alive on earth. Scientists just had to take a look at that genome and here they discuss their findings. Watch researchers discuss the fascinating genome of the duck-billed platypus; an amalgam of reptilian, mammalian and unique characteristics.

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  • The woman at the beginning has a duck-billed platypus mounted on her head

  • (A) only if you don't know anatomy (it's a snout)

    (B) thats because it is a mammal

    (C) there are other mammals with webbed feet/hands and claws/nails.

    (D) and?

    (E) the poison is nothing like a snakes, it is composed of 250 separate chemicals with no necrotising effects.

    The Platypus is a monotreme, look it up. There are only 5 known monotreme species, the others are echidnas. They are essentialy living transitionals between mammals and reptiles (though definetly well into the mammalian clade)

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  • those fat chicks making that duck face look like duck-billed platypodes...

  • any chance he's a secret agent called perry the platypus!

  • genome sequence and analysis is widely use for identifying the genetic structure of a species.. Ironically, platypus is only one of a kind!

  • what is a genome? Google please..hehe.. I'm so dumb.

  • 7:04 Dogs and Cows have a close common ancestor? The mouse evolved after the dog? T thought the mouse was one of the earliest mammals. Weird, am I reading this correctly

  • evolution FTW!

  • @Certifier7 monotremes are the last of the therapsids (the link between mammals and reptiles) and their genome is evidence of that link. They have a fair number of reptillian and proto-mammalian genes. What do you have against genetic evidence? You probably wouldn't want to know that you are only seperated from other apes by a fusion of the 2nd and 13th chromosome then ^_^ Monotremes are proto-mammals and humans are apes :)

  • ... he is semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action... *Perry!*

  • the platypus is my fav animal ever! i am upsessed with it and it's scientific name is Ornithorhynchus Anatinus.

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