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Random excerpts from this life

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To miss the familiar <3

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please don’t hurt them

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BABIES!!!

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Yes dont eat them

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Things my roommate says that are false

You can't get parasites from pork.

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Sometimes I just wish I lived on a veggie farm out in a forrest near the coast. Spend my days in the dirt and listen to my boyfriend play guitar at night. Then I remember grub hub doesn't deliver that far. Not the whole story, but, yea. I like portland. Mainly I just want a backyard. To sprout things and lay under the stars.

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Police popo popos pope ohs pope hoes. Hahaha pope hoes. Uh yea.

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Et entre ses mains, le monde.

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Very inspired by cowspiracy! I made some graphics from the stats in the documentary. Feel free to take them and repost them.

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The tardigrade genome has been sequenced, and it has the most foreign DNA of any animal

Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the tardigrade, AKA the water bear, for the first time. And it turns out that this weird little creature has the most foreign genes of any animal studied so far – or to put it another way, roughly one-sixth of the tardigrade’s genome was stolen from other species. We have to admit, we’re kinda not surprised.

A little background here for those who aren’t familiar with the strangeness that is the tardigrade – the microscopic water creature grows to just over 1 mm on average, and is the only animal that can survive in the harsh environment of space. It can also withstand temperatures from just above absolute zero to well above the boiling point of water, can cope with ridiculous amounts of pressure and radiation, and can live for more than 10 years without food or water. Basically, it’s nearly impossible to kill, and now scientists have shown that its DNA is just as bizarre as it is.

So what’s foreign DNA and why does it matter that tardigrades have so much of it? The term refers to genes that have come from another organism via a process known as horizontal gene transfer, as opposed to being passed down through traditional reproduction.

Horizontal gene transfer occurs in humans and other animals occasionally, usually as a result of gene swapping with viruses, but to put it into perspective, most animals have less than 1 percent of their genome made up of foreign DNA. Before this, the rotifer – another microscopic water creature – was believed to have the most foreign genes of any animal, with 8 or 9 percent.

But the new research has shown that approximately 6,000 of the tardigrade’s genes come from foreign species, which equates to around 17.5 percent.

“We had no idea that an animal genome could be composed of so much foreign DNA,” said study co-author Bob Goldstein, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “We knew many animals acquire foreign genes, but we had no idea that it happens to this degree.”

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