Evolution - Great Transformations 5of6
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@jaymorpheus11 You misunderstood. They thought the mechanism that control the structure of the body was more complicated.
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0:55"Nobody thought single genes were powerful enough to control something as complex as the structure of the body"
Yeah, like some magical force from outer space controls it.
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eat my liver, I will grow another
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@Mithcoriel its amazing, identical genes in mouse and fly. who would've thought that mouse genes could be used to make fly eyes? that sounds potentially useful in medical uses
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Great series
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So did the gene for a mouse-eye, implanted into a fly, make it grow FLY eyes, or something like mouse eyes?
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Yes. The genetic machinery for the specifics of that eye lie "downstream" in a sort of cascade of messages from one gene/protein to another. These developmental cascades in the fly eye would probably be, at least in some ways, different from those cascades in the mouse eye.
JonMDouglas 3 years ago 4
Whoops, sorry, should have listened more closely. It grows a fly eye. So I guess the exact info for what TYPE of eye it grows would be found somewhere else.
Mithcoriel 3 years ago 3