Members MsGuy Posted December 19, 2013 Members Posted December 19, 2013 Oldest known flowering plant shown to be a genetic monster. Green activists aghast, rush to assure followers that seaweed, fungus and pond scum still considered safe to eat. http://news.discovery.com/earth/plants/oldest-flowering-plant-genome-mapped-pictures-131219.htm (No, I won't give you a 25 word or less summary, you lazy bitches. You'll just have to read the link and figure it out for yourselves.) lookin 1 Quote
AdamSmith Posted December 19, 2013 Posted December 19, 2013 Now why did my taking that approach to NYC twinks somehow fail to confer perpetual youth? lookin 1 Quote
Members MsGuy Posted December 20, 2013 Author Members Posted December 20, 2013 'Cause NYC twinks don't do reading? Quote
AdamSmith Posted December 20, 2013 Posted December 20, 2013 No -- "that approach" meaning the approach taken by those plants! Quote
Members MsGuy Posted December 20, 2013 Author Members Posted December 20, 2013 More on the mysterious origins of flowering plants (essentially near everything you eat if you consider what the critters that you eat eat). http://www.ibtimes.com/dna-oldest-flowering-plant-addresses-darwins-abominable-mystery-study-1516714 Turns out that flowers not only stole genes from algae and other stuff but were subject to a "genome doubling event" sometime in the distant past (not that I know what a 'genome doubling event might amount to but it sure doesn't sound like anything I'd want to eat). Darwin himself puzzled over the sudden appearance in the geological record of thousands of species flowering plants. He termed it an "abominable mystery." Well now we know and how right he proved to be. Does anyone have a good recipe for seaweed and fungus? Quote
