An elegantly intuitive view of evolution

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  • @Nanorooms
    @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

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    • @gregorysagegreene
      @gregorysagegreene 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Just one thing ... are you hinting at all that 'junk DNA' we have is perhaps there for the next speciation event(s)?
      - Very good video, btw. 💜👍

  • @Nanorooms
    @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +305

    Nah, I’d evolve

    • @phiality9070
      @phiality9070 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +47

      I alone am the evolving one.

    • @Dr.Kraig_Ren
      @Dr.Kraig_Ren 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

      When I read my old messages I cringe out. So I evolve every two months

    • @degariuslozak2169
      @degariuslozak2169 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      OOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!!!🔥🔥🔥

    • @wasordx3245
      @wasordx3245 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

      Stand proud, you have evolved, but nah I'd be more fit

    • @MajorLeeAwesome
      @MajorLeeAwesome 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Throughout space and soup, I alone am the Primal One.

  • @user-co6xl8vo5y
    @user-co6xl8vo5y 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +194

    The researchers missed a golden opportunity to find out what snake legs look like

    • @Soken50
      @Soken50 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      Right? I wanted to see that!

    • @Lilbluepenguin
      @Lilbluepenguin 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Though I think it would be kind of hard to ask a funding body like NSF “hey can you give us money so we can give this snake legs” 😂😂

    • @Soken50
      @Soken50 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +28

      @@Lilbluepenguin You'd obviously have to rephrase that in scientific terms and dazzle them with amazing applications like fixing malformations in human fetuses in the future.

    • @BartdeBoisblanc
      @BartdeBoisblanc 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      They could compare the genes of a snake to a legless lizard,might reveal something.

    • @user-co6xl8vo5y
      @user-co6xl8vo5y 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@BartdeBoisblanc Not the same, it just wouldn't be enough of an abomination.

  • @cristopherpuga1637
    @cristopherpuga1637 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +200

    Physicist here. I'm about to apply to grad school by the end of the year, and you might be the reason I can't stop thinking about applying to biophysics. Great content!

    • @Nanorooms
      @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

      I’m two years away from that. Lmk how gradschool goes!

    • @NamedSoni
      @NamedSoni 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      And here I am learning CS and bio. Hope this becomes relevant in future industry.

    • @cyberbiosecurity
      @cyberbiosecurity 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@NamedSoni Amazing choice!

    • @fyang1429
      @fyang1429 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I am studying structural bio and I’d say don’t- it’s a terrible field with insane work hours and whether you publish depends almost entirely on luck

    • @firecracker26241
      @firecracker26241 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Biophysicist in grad school here. Do it!

  • @spliter88
    @spliter88 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +40

    One thing I noticed in my own evolution experiments is that natural disasters are a necessary part of evolution and diversification.
    If all you have is limited food and evolve organisms they'll just end up more and more efficient, but very similar behaviours, and very, very rarely you'll end up with a version that changes things around.
    However if you introduce periodic disasters that randomly kill off big chunks of population then you'll quickly end up with much more diverse ecosystems.
    I suspect that's because of bacteria getting stuck on local maxima. Once they reach it, then any genetic deviation away from that will necessarily reduce their fitness and become quickly outcompeted by those that end up closer to the local maxima.
    Random natural disasters create a temporary opportunity where reduction of fitness isn't a death sentence and you have a few dozen to hundred generations where you're able to experiment pathways that require the bacteria to become less fit but without having to start over from a random genotype. Then a new maxima is often found and the old maxima becomes just a specialized niche.

    • @ratvomit874
      @ratvomit874 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      The crazy thing is that this isn't even limited to biological evolution, we see the same thing in technological advancement as well. It's quite possible that bicycles only came into existence because of the 1816 Year Without a Summer which decimated horse populations worldwide and forced people to look for alternative means of transportation. If that never happened it's entirely possible we might still be stuck with horses to this day (remember that development of mechanical propulsion drivetrains for automobiles and paved roads was really first done for the bicycle, there's a reason the modern car came so soon after the bicycle)

    • @bluemonstrosity259
      @bluemonstrosity259 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Correct and profound comment. Much appreciated.

    • @szymonbaranowski8184
      @szymonbaranowski8184 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      not this way, evolution improves when ecosystem grows and it grows with overall stability and size, mass dying off also causes fall of diversity... coming of cellulose itself caused massive changes in ecosystems without mass dying

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Makes sense as evolution is driven by niche competition. If there's only one niche and it's being equally competed for, the only way to evolve is to be more efficient. However if there's fluctuations in that niche, or multiple close niches that can be competed for, it allows more opportunities for something less efficient in the initial niche to develop.

  • @bradbradford8576
    @bradbradford8576 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

    Everyone's understanding of evolution is incomplete, but still, thanks for making that slightly less so

  • @shir_azazil
    @shir_azazil 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +43

    if you can make mice amputee by giving them snake ZRS, does that mean you can give snakes their legs back by giving them mice ZRS?

    • @sobbski2672
      @sobbski2672 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

      Probably not since ZRS is part of a network of genes. Although disabling the ZRS gene disrupts limb growth, restoring it in snakes wouldn't necessarily make them grow legs again.

    • @travcollier
      @travcollier 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      ​@@sobbski2672Though it would be interesting to see what other genes in the 'make legs' pathway were co-opted for novel functions after they lost their primary function.

    • @bounceday
      @bounceday 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Maybe

    • @CandideSchmyles
      @CandideSchmyles 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Millipede leg growth genes would be cool

    • @PierreLucSex
      @PierreLucSex 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@CandideSchmyles yeah, let's test it on your children first

  • @vipierozan99
    @vipierozan99 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +60

    So basically, feature flags?

    • @mikemhz
      @mikemhz 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Or backwards compatability

  • @perrywilliams5407
    @perrywilliams5407 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    What a great presentation! The one thing that continues to "anthropomorphize" the process of evolution (it is used in every explanation I've ever seen, including here) is describing a genetic variation being "selected." That may have a very specific meaning within evolutionary science, but to a layman, it sounds like agency. Randomized processes have no agency; they do not act out of volition because a process does not have a will. May I suggest as an alternative to describe selection as the result of probabilistic math? A fitter variant has a statistical advantage over time, sort of like playing with loaded dice. You cover that quite well latter on, and kudos for doing so, but it is more technical and so less accessible for regular folks.

  • @rockapedra1130
    @rockapedra1130 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +64

    This video has really excellent content but IMHO, it needs to be slowed down, filled in and expanded. Maybe even broken into a several videos? It's a bit like super speed Cliffs Notes as it is! Keep up the good work!

    • @rybzym.m790
      @rybzym.m790 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      I do agree it is fast, but I don't think it should be different videos IMO, I think it should be 20 mins and with a bit more explanations on some of the diagrams.
      I get a vibe of 3Blue1Brown from this video, but it lacks the basics that 3B1B sometimes gives in maths, and I believe here in biology it can really be useful of course with his fingerprint containing the whole video.
      Maybe add the extra details and some of the resources in Patreon?
      In any case I wish for this channel to grow much more as youtube doesn't have a lot of deep Biology channel, my first thought would be the thought emporium but they do more of experiments, not really illustrations on how the basic mechanisms of Biology work.
      Anyhow!, this is my small opinion as a science youtube binge watcher! Best of luck Nano!

    • @KWifler
      @KWifler 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      It's a good speed for modern young people. It's about average for most of the videos I watch, anyways. Although, whenever I try to show a video to a boomer, they get confused, LOL

    • @pizzainc.1465
      @pizzainc.1465 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Modern young people? Boomer? lol in all caps as a conclusion? Sus 🧐, are you sure you are not the boomer? Nobody talks like that, especially not on scientific TH-cam channels

    • @rockapedra1130
      @rockapedra1130 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@rybzym.m790 good ideas!

    • @rockapedra1130
      @rockapedra1130 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@KWifler I was trying to say that it would be more educational if it had a more controlled pacing and a longer exposition. This attitude of name calling and believing your cohort is sooooo advanced is just your immaturity showing.

  • @sobbski2672
    @sobbski2672 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    Keep it up man. Im starting my doctoral program this summer; your videos are excellent! What do you use to create your biomolecular videos, PyMOL?

    • @Nanorooms
      @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      The blender add-on I linked below

  • @dantefernandez2455
    @dantefernandez2455 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    Excellent video and the animations are impeccable supplementary learning tools! As a BioChemE student I would love to see more videos that go into depth when it comes to specific mechanisms. For instance, 7:50 could have been an entire video:
    1.) You could explain the active site's original purpose and go into the residue interactions and the step by step mechanistic process.
    2a.) Explain the specific proteins/processes involved with duplicating a section of a genome.
    2b.) Explain how both copies of the gene would share the same promotor region (I assume).
    3a.) Go into the roll introns and exons play (idk if that protein you showed even came from a eukaryote, so ignore if not applicable) in sometimes splicing out the duplication to retain original function in some cells and have other cells not splice the copy and how that would allow that copy to evolve a unique function over time.
    3b.) Go into the residues that facilitate the dimerization.
    4.) Extrapolate from the previous points how complex and modular quaternary structures and metabolic pathway can come out of this to evolve from a single cell to a tree, mushroom, or even a human over time!
    I don't know what your analytics say but I feel like tons of people are starved for long form content. Don't be afraid to go into excruciating detail, we're a curious bunch!

  • @GenomeNinjaScience
    @GenomeNinjaScience 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hi @NanoRooms! Your content is awesome. I find it engaging and informative! 💛I also really like the animations you use in your video. I was curious, What software do you use to make them? Is this a question you can answer? Thank you for any time and attention that is provided to this comment!

  • @KevinWang-jc1bx
    @KevinWang-jc1bx 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Thank you for another marvelously polished video! Just recently found your channel and can't stop myself from watching all of your systems biology videos. From your mathematical and systems biology background, what are your thoughts on how the mathematical basis for biological processes fits into the evolutionary model? Do you think these mathematical properties are coincidentally emergent, guide evolution, or something else?

    • @Nanorooms
      @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      I’m still currently a novice on the subject. I’ve only recently learned of such a thing in more detail from my friend who I credited at the end of the video. I might make a video on that topic sooner or later. But in general, it’s pretty gosh darn fascinating. He was even able to model how microbes can evolve together in a community!

  • @GustavoOliveira-gp6nr
    @GustavoOliveira-gp6nr 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    The content is very good and the animations as well, but the speed is a little to fast for me. I am not familiar with some biological terms and the dna and genes pictured and you skip it too fast and i dont get it sometimes.
    Also, I may have gotten it wrong but the way I see it you made some big claims and questions in the beggining of the video but it was not clear to me what are the objective answers, you said just mutations dont explain the variety we observe in evolution but in my eyes you just explained more ways of mutations, so i was left wondering what were the answers you promised in the beggining. It would be very helpful if you could provide a clear summary of the points you are making in the end of the video.

  • @wpwscience4027
    @wpwscience4027 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Also worth noting that fitness itself is not a uniform cull. You have quite literally as many different advantageous trajectories as you can fit under the sun.

  • @JoeTaber
    @JoeTaber 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    It turns out repair rate is is not homogeneous. That is, some genes are repaired with near 100% accuracy, while other genes are allowed to have errors.
    "‘DNA spellchecker’ is preferentially directed towards more important parts of chromosomes that contain key genes." - Center for Genomic Regulation article
    *Differential DNA mismatch repair underlies mutation rate variation across the human genome* - DOI: 10.1038/nature14173

    • @Angelmou
      @Angelmou 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Some lineages of life also have less efficient DNA repair mechanism. Squids are a good example for that.

  • @sol-splendet
    @sol-splendet 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    man this is straight up gold. The animation and the commentary are top notch, keep it up my guy :)

  • @1Cr0w
    @1Cr0w 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    "It's not just mutation" Look inside. It's just mutation.

  • @omenow
    @omenow 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    3:50

  • @Scarybug
    @Scarybug 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    This is really great!
    Please do consider adding captions in your future videos. It makes them much more accessible and TH-cam's auto captions are terrible.

    • @briace9939
      @briace9939 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Literally using youtube auto captions and they are working fine

    • @Scarybug
      @Scarybug 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@briace9939 if you don't care about getting all the words right sure

    • @the_real_aristotle
      @the_real_aristotle 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      U can try your phones auto caption

    • @Scarybug
      @Scarybug 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@the_real_aristotle Auto caption are always terrible for science videos because they don't understand rare words very well. They also don't handle non American or British accents very well. They also don't punctuate properly. Providing hand made captions means people who can't hear well and people with auditory processing issues have a much better time understanding your content. TH-cam provides creators with tools to edit the auto captions into something that is actually correct.

  • @eduardschreder1623
    @eduardschreder1623 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    thanks for putting all the paper links in the description

    • @Nanorooms
      @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Would be unethical if I didn’t haha

    • @snipergaming2639
      @snipergaming2639 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Nanorooms Hey, these are really great videos. Could you tell me how they're edited and what you use to animate them? I'm thinking of doing a similar thing in the future> Not copying though hahha

  • @user-nd7rg5er5g
    @user-nd7rg5er5g 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Completely fascinating and wonderful work. Thank you for teaching us in such clear and fantastic ways!

  • @gregorysagegreene
    @gregorysagegreene 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've been exploring a number of areas of biology, and become familiar with a lot. But this is a new and intriguing area for me, that I'm not able to fully grasp yet, and definitely want to delve further into.

  • @vinniepeterss
    @vinniepeterss 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    awesome video mate!

  • @cyberbiosecurity
    @cyberbiosecurity 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Amazing video, thank you

  • @InforSpirit
    @InforSpirit 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I think one of the most underspoken thing is horizontal gene transfer events.
    Endosymbiotic transfer, where some reason smaller cell organism got trapped inside of bigger cell (plastids like chloroplast, mitocondria)
    Viral DNA transfer: Immunology supressing gene transfer maybe is behind of mammal blacenta evolution.
    Bacteria, funcal gene transfers to animals (more common with smaller species).
    Not to even mention multicellural ecosystem symbiots. Human gut and skin has so many beneficial bacterials that are not part of human genome adn have effect on fittness.

  • @hiryu70
    @hiryu70 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Title: its not just mutation
    Video: it's just mutation

    • @lastchance8142
      @lastchance8142 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      THANK YOU! I guess nobody else noticed.

    • @szymonbaranowski8184
      @szymonbaranowski8184 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      it's random divergence but also memory of organisms of variations that didn't work and it's not in DNA kek

  • @KillianTwew
    @KillianTwew 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Could you hijack a duplication event to sort of seed it to develop a trait you want, or could you just code and insert said trait?

    • @davidaugustofc2574
      @davidaugustofc2574 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Some viruses just insert DNA into the cells.

    • @someguy999
      @someguy999 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Duplication events are random and rare, so it probably wouldn't make sense to try and hijack one. It would make more sense just to use a gene editing technology like CRISPR to do what you are describing.

  • @MegaMieb
    @MegaMieb 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Poor snakes. No sonic hedgehog, no limbs

  • @psi9899
    @psi9899 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for the great video! This is also why transposons and integrated viral elements in the genome are also drivers of trait evolution!

    • @Nanorooms
      @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Indeed! A little sad that I couldn’t manage to find a place to fit it in this video without overblowing the complexity.

  • @CzechNeight
    @CzechNeight 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I've been waiting 20 years for this video! I've been waiting for someone to unpack the oversimplification of oopsies. As someone who is not focused on biology, it was still intuitive that mutations and natural selection were not enough to see the accelerating explosion of diversity of life. If DNA copy errors were the whole mechanism, why is it that we were single celled for billions of years, but then all mammals evolve in 200 million years. I see now that it is indeed just 'oopsies all the way down', but it's oopsies at different levels of duplication, and that a gene level duplication oopsie gives the 'problem child' gene time to find its real passion in life. And you allude to some amount of a larger library of genes available over time, which I thought might be part of it. Thank you for more clearly telling this story!

    • @Nanorooms
      @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      If I may ask, what background do you come from?

  • @aaaaa-oh6dk
    @aaaaa-oh6dk 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent animation and editing, love to see it!

  • @adriaancanter4573
    @adriaancanter4573 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I've read that Drosophila experiments show that they evolve to adapt to heat stress faster than what can be explained by random mutation alone. I've never understood if that's really true or how. If true would the mechanisms you've described account for such an observation?

    • @ThatSpazamataz
      @ThatSpazamataz 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      It’s possible that these are the result of epigenetic changes. I’d have to see the study you are talking about to confirm it though.
      It’s also the case that mutation isn’t always random. Gene transfer can be directed just as we humans can make GMO’s so can some organisms in some conditions edit their own or other organisms genes. (Viruses are the most obvious example of this, but CRISPR is the best example). So this could’ve another possibility.

  • @robertomancusi7929
    @robertomancusi7929 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This video is amazing! Keep it up

  • @real_pattern
    @real_pattern 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    evolution is more often a satisficer instead of an optimizer.

  • @vinniepeterss
    @vinniepeterss 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    love this as always!

  • @michaelscheibe4228
    @michaelscheibe4228 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The Videos are a good source for modeling protein dynamics/regulation in cells and between them. I have bought the book "An Inteoduction to Systems Biology" (2. Edition), but I'm at the beginning & the real interest i am about to is modeling the evolving of DNA & RNA.

  • @yeethappymeta
    @yeethappymeta 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    i love this video so much!!! I can only wish to become such a great scientific educator as yourself.

  • @mrv4747
    @mrv4747 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is golden content!

  • @Gutterrat69
    @Gutterrat69 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thankyou this was very helpful and cleared up my misconception

  • @GeoffryGifari
    @GeoffryGifari 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    How can the DNA copier "know" what the right DNA sequence is? shouldn't there be a reference?

    • @cryptoam177
      @cryptoam177 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      The reference strand is the other complementary strand. When the DNA synthase enzyme (the copier) is creating the "copy" strand, it uses the complementary template strand to match the correct bases to form said copy strand. Of course, errors can happen due to a bunch of various factors(such as just accidentally use the wrong base, damage to bases causing them to appear chemically similar to other bases, bases in the complementary strand not "shown" to the enzyme due to kinks(DNA is a physical molecule that can bend and twist), and many other factors).

    • @Gelatinocyte2
      @Gelatinocyte2 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      DNA replication is really just like solving the simplest jigsaw puzzle - each base can only fit/pair with its complementary base; but reality is never perfect, that's why mutations still occur despite this fact.

  • @calebr7199
    @calebr7199 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Another great video from one of my favorite science youtubers!

  • @andrewgu2318
    @andrewgu2318 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Wow im here early. I love your content man.

  • @rasiklal8016
    @rasiklal8016 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One of the BEST explanations on youtube - THANKS

  • @mikiimiki9182
    @mikiimiki9182 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Wasnt interchromosomal recombination in anaphase 1?

    • @Nanorooms
      @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      The linking already occurs in prophase I, since these homologous chromosomes needed to be joined together to be brought to the centre. The holliday junction resolution only happens during metaphase I or anaphase I, If I recall correctly.

  • @KWifler
    @KWifler 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    This may blow your mind, but, actually, evolution affects EVERY system that depends on biological organisms, including nonbiological things like youtube videos!

    • @simesaid
      @simesaid 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Facts.

  • @varshneydevansh
    @varshneydevansh 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Can't remember when I subbed you but it's worthy

  • @iquemedia
    @iquemedia 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    what a fantastic line to end on
    idr why I subbed, but it probably has to do with the fact I haven't thought about how genes in years
    keep makin mistakes homie, I'll hear ya at the next one 🤙

  • @egohicsum
    @egohicsum 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    great video ❤️

  • @floweytheflower5261
    @floweytheflower5261 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    SONIC HEDGEHOG

  • @lopsidedpolygon
    @lopsidedpolygon 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

    LMAO sonic as the final form 😂

    • @cyberbiosecurity
      @cyberbiosecurity 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      there is a gene that is literally called that. We also have Robotnik gene 😁

    • @Gelatinocyte2
      @Gelatinocyte2 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      @@cyberbiosecurity It's not a Robitnik gene, it's Robotnikinin - a chemical developed to interact with Sonic Hedgehog proteins (you know, for research!)
      -There's also a Shadow Hedgehog gene if anyone's interested.-
      Edit: I somehow had a false memory of there being a "shadow hedgehog gene"; there wasn't (I think). How did I misremember this?

    • @raptorboss6688
      @raptorboss6688 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Gelatinocyte2lmaooo whoever decided to name these genes after sonic characters is literally the best person ever

    • @cyberbiosecurity
      @cyberbiosecurity 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@raptorboss6688 it was related to some flies develooping spikes on their back dependent on this gene. hence hedgehog

    • @cyberbiosecurity
      @cyberbiosecurity 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Gelatinocyte2 it's called cryptomnesia, afair.

  • @catmeme2446
    @catmeme2446 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    transposable elements are the other part of this story of gene duplication /deletions / redistribution. You should do a video on TEs some make retrocopies / retrogenes not just copy themselves.

  • @kaushalgagan6723
    @kaushalgagan6723 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is the video I was waiting for ❤
    Best explanation as always

  • @mapnzap
    @mapnzap 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Origin of Life question. With all of the diversity of DNA on the planet, is it possible to figure out if life started once in one location or multiple times in multiple locations?

    • @andrewliu6592
      @andrewliu6592 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      well there's a LUCA (last universal common ancestor), which has an estimated time, but you can't really estimate a geographical area because much of the rock from that time period doesn't exist anymore

  • @bentationfunkiloglio
    @bentationfunkiloglio 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I've written genetic algorithms (just to experiment/play with them). To-date, I've only used single point crossover when creating a child from 2 parents. Might need to try some more sophisticated approaches.

  • @cexploreful
    @cexploreful 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Interesting and subscribed❤

  • @noelbreitenbach8673
    @noelbreitenbach8673 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Gosh darn I love this stuff!

  • @derex47
    @derex47 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Your videos are like sunlight after a stormy day

  • @gregoryallen0001
    @gregoryallen0001 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    @nanorooms you have a very good subs/views ratio

  • @gregorydriscoll8806
    @gregorydriscoll8806 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Do we know why diversity is selected for? In other words, what caused the push for the mechanisms of diversity (like meiosis) to come to be? Was it for the health of the organism, or for the health of life itself, if you know what I mean?

    • @calibandrive7487
      @calibandrive7487 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      One kind of pressure (one of many) that pushes organisms toward diversification is the pressure exerted by infectious diseases and parasites.
      Let's say you are vulnerable to a particular virus, because that virus exploits a particular surface protein on your cells to break and enter into them and eat you. In other words, you have a vulnerability, and the virus exploits that vulnerability.
      Now, if all your offspring were exact genetic copies of you, then they would all inherit the exact same vulnerability, and the virus would spread rapidly among your offspring and eat them.
      But if you were able to give your offspring different variants of that surface protein, perhaps some of your children would be more or less resistant to the virus and would have a better chance to survive and outbreak of virus.
      One way to achieve genetic diversity in your offspring is sex; instead of cloning yourself to make babies, you team up with another individual who is genetically distinct from you. You and your partner then shuffle your genes together to make wholly unique babies that are neither identical to you nor to your partner. This is a useful way to hedge against homogeneity and resist diseases and parasites.
      "Don't put all your eggs in the same basket" is the same principle as "give your offspring lots of genetic diversity".

    • @ThatSpazamataz
      @ThatSpazamataz 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Other reasons are that diversity allows for faster adaptability to changing conditions. Which is evolutionarily advantageous if a new niche appears or if the environment changes drastically. (For example if you have 5 offspring it may mathematically make more sense to make 4 that are ideal for the environment and 1 that is ideal for a slightly different environment. Yes the one that is not ideal likely will have a lower fitness if the environment stays the same. But the fitness cost vs the potential reward if the environment changes may be worth it (a bit like paying for a lottery ticket).
      I just made up the 4/5 ratio but similar things can be more evolutionarily stable.
      Another reason is behaviour. The selfish gene is a really good book for understanding this concept. But essentially behaviour patterns across species can be considered from a game theory perspective. And in cases like that if every animal lets say shares their food with each other. Then if your genes promote that you have more diverse offspring, statistically your offspring will be more likely to be able to evolve to not share and then take advantage of the other animals in your species. And then this goes even further than when your offspring start dominating the gene pool, they will also be more likely to have offspring which evolve to stop sharing with the animals that steal etc etc etc.
      Effectively being able to quickly evolve is in itself evolutionarily advantageous. Because even if it means more of your offspring won’t be perfect for the niche and therefore the individuals will be slightly worse off, it (as the previous person wrote) hedges a bet that prevents a situation where the ecological niche changes and your previous perfection is now a big problem that (due to not favouring diversity) cannot be changed quickly enough before your genes die out.

  • @omargoodman2999
    @omargoodman2999 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Heh, snakes are coded in Python.
    On an unrelated note, I recall seeing a study a few months ago regarding how ADHD, or at least sub-threshold traits of ADHD, could be an evolutionary advantage, _particularly_ in more social organisms.
    In short, they had participants play a game simulating gathering food. They would forage berries from bushes and had to choose between continuing on their current bush, or traveling in search of another. As they gathered the current bush, it would gradually produce less food from over-foraging until it ran out. But traveling took a random amount of time to find another suitable bush. And they competed to see who could gather the most food.
    Participants who had been diagnosed with, suspected they had, or exhibited traits of, ADHD showed a significant tendency to travel in search of a new bush before the current one was depleted. Others tended to harvest to depletion or, at least, significantly reduced returns before searching for a new bush. And the "early travelers" ended up gathering more food, on average, and *not* by a small margin either. Iirc, it was something on the order of +10-15% or so. That ADHD urge to be distracted by "something new" and not get stuck on something boring ended up being a survival advantage.
    And the researchers hypothesized this is why seemingly detrimental traits can persist and be so prevelant when one would think it would be selected against if it were such an impediment. The answer is that whether it's an advantage or disadvantage can depend on environment and context. What *used* to be a survival advantage stayed exactly the same, but Human society changed, evolved, and developed _around_ it. As resources became abundant through agriculture and economy, the advantage such ADHD traits had to offer were no longer advantages; they were more detrimental and only had niche uses for people who had very robust support networks.

  • @cruisewithspirit6021
    @cruisewithspirit6021 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    There’s no escape option

  • @dragonzed
    @dragonzed 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Just stumbled across your channel as a recommendation. I liked it! Explaining evolution is hard! But please be careful when oversimplifying things. For example, isn't it really bad to even suggest that c.elegans evolves into the fruit fly? One should just say that they it is posible that they have a common ancestor. No spiecies that is alive right now can evolve into another species, right? RIGHT?

  • @florinteleanu9049
    @florinteleanu9049 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Amazing syncronization with Veritassium's newest video on adaptation of duplicated genes in jumping spyders retina

    • @Nanorooms
      @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I just watched it and laughed at how well it coincided 😂

  • @ahmetmutlu348
    @ahmetmutlu348 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I suspect that viruses microphages etc are part of evolutions master program and transfer data offline where data is not accessuble the standard way.. i mean it has random access data read write capabilities which means out of main software data update which is something you do on cheat engine to update games rules on pcs ;)

  • @williamkibler592
    @williamkibler592 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Good numbers brah

  • @melody3741
    @melody3741 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Also laypeople to my knowledge understand “mutation” to mean duplication, mutation itself, from copying or damage, and deletion. Its not an assumption that only mutation was involved

  • @cyberbiosecurity
    @cyberbiosecurity 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    In healthy human body, on average, approx. 1 DNA error occurs every second.
    Given ~50 trillion cells in our body, roughly(and wrongly) speaking this makes up for 50 THz error rate per whole body.
    (wrongly, because in fact we can not apply "Hz" to denoting stochastic processes average frequency)
    still just imagine that NOISE, like an insane Geiger counter cracking. 🥶 like 500 dB noise

  • @manuelpena3988
    @manuelpena3988 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It's funny that you use an optimization algorith based on.... natural selection, to give an intuitive explanation of how natura selection works. It's just like a genetic algorithm!
    (btw thank you for the video, love your videos and, most of all, your subject)

    • @Nanorooms
      @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      -trust the natural definition recursion-

  • @oatlord
    @oatlord 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    How do these copying cells do error detection?

    • @someguy999
      @someguy999 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      There a number of mechanisms, but templates come into play a lot of the time. By template, I'm referring to the opposite DNA strand. There are also mechanisms that don't rely on templates, but they are more error prone.

  • @zamolxezamolxe8131
    @zamolxezamolxe8131 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    When i take a bath, i feel sometimes like a bactrria floating in water

  • @frankpower97
    @frankpower97 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    so doing the mice experiment in reverse can we have a snake with legs ? like a really venomous snake with really fast legs, I would like that

    • @mario97br
      @mario97br 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      A monitor lizard from hell xD

    • @Gelatinocyte2
      @Gelatinocyte2 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      _"I would like that"_
      I don't think any of us would too lol

    • @frankpower97
      @frankpower97 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      How can you not like it ?
      Think just a minute !
      It's not just a venomous animal enhanced , NO!
      It is the symbol of human hubris, it is an act of power against every law of nature, it is a spit in the face of evolution, no even more, IT IS A SPIT IN THE FACE OF GOD HIMSELF!
      And what ending better than to die to the most toxic venom from a creature even more dangerous and fast of what nature could come up with ? After the accomplishment of such creation, the majesty of our actions, life would be just dull and empty anyway

  • @ramanShariati
    @ramanShariati 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Please make a video on bioeleciy an morphogenesis

  • @ASL-cz9pj
    @ASL-cz9pj 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The mechanism seems work well for single cell organism. My question: when do DNA mutations happen in multicellular organism? I think of 2 options. First to increase the success of mutation of organism, it happens in every cell. But it will cause different DNA sequence in many mutated cells within 1 organism. This mechanism seems wrong to me. Second it happens when the fertilized egg start to multiply, so the mutate gene is replicated to all DNA in all cells. But the probability become very small. So we can find 1 mutated organism among many which must find another similar mutated organism with different sex so they can reproduce the mutated breed. With this mechanism how big the population needed to get a new breed/species? Any math expert can do the calculation? Does anyone have different options to explore?

    • @davidaugustofc2574
      @davidaugustofc2574 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes, mutations can happen in different parts of the body, but it matters most during reproduction. A fetus has an exceptional rate of growth and so it can mutate more often.
      Tumors are often local, they spread through the body via blood vessels, but I can happen with one mutation.

  • @melody3741
    @melody3741 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    OK, I absolutely must know what snakes leftover leg architecture looks like, please somebody fix those jeans in an actual snake. I have to know.

    • @Angelmou
      @Angelmou 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      there are snakes with leg atavism. Just google for snake leg atavism.

  • @alanbregovic8889
    @alanbregovic8889 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    my garden could use a cute stripey snake with big eyelashes

  • @ConnoisseurOfExistence
    @ConnoisseurOfExistence 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nice!

  • @nescaufe1991
    @nescaufe1991 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Why is the leg expression gene named “Sonic Hedgehog”?

    • @andrewliu6592
      @andrewliu6592 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      one of the discoverers saw an ad for the game sonic in a magazine and decided "hmm that sounds like a good name for a protein"

    • @Angelmou
      @Angelmou 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Scientists are Nerds.

    • @asphalthedgehog6580
      @asphalthedgehog6580 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Wish I had that name...

  • @TEPMOBETEP
    @TEPMOBETEP 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Mechanisms and all is interesting, but how is that started though? You explained how DNA can grow in lenght, but from where that mechanism of biology programing originated?

    • @andrewliu6592
      @andrewliu6592 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      the DNA polymerization reaction can be catalyzed by rna molecules. also, some minerals have been found to be able to catalyze the assembly of nucleic acids & proteins

    • @TEPMOBETEP
      @TEPMOBETEP 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​​@@andrewliu6592 source? Because you are not answering my question, or i am not getting it. "Catalyze the assembly" but proteins assembled only by other proteins/enzymes with subsequent decoding of existing DNA.
      Plus, RNA is huge molecule and don't "just happen" in some wild mineral soup.

    • @davidaugustofc2574
      @davidaugustofc2574 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@TEPMOBETEP why not look at how the experiment is done instead of clinging on to outdated beliefs

    • @user-jb2om7cm8m
      @user-jb2om7cm8m 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@TEPMOBETEP It's still a mystery- even the spontaneous creation of the DNA molecule itself is not understood- only small parts of it- and even then highly speculative.
      Beyond that that though, it's like using geology to explain the Rosetta Stone; even if you can account for the medium, you're not accounting for the 'programming' as you say, the actual necessary information, digital in this case.

    • @TEPMOBETEP
      @TEPMOBETEP 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@davidaugustofc2574 what experiment? I asked for source of the first claim. You are mentioning now about some "experiment". What is your source also? Where can i learn about "experiment" you mentioned? You are answering with some vague gibberish. What is your source? Study? Experiment name? If you want to answer questions, then provide source. If don't want to point the source out, don't answer

  • @o.s.h.4613
    @o.s.h.4613 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    9:05 amogus 🥰

    • @Nanorooms
      @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Ayy someone noticed!!

    • @o.s.h.4613
      @o.s.h.4613 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Nanorooms I literally pogged and pointed at my screen like some kind of primitive hominid, you had me evolving backwards

  • @paolocarl.8205
    @paolocarl.8205 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    All I could think throughout the video is that I want to see a python with legs now, since it's possible

  • @michaeljames5936
    @michaeljames5936 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Why so many of these 'genius' Multi-Billionaires, come from incredible wealth already, is because they have that 'safety net', which allows them to innovate safely.. and hey go bankrupt a few times. If you are struggling to put food on the table, the courage to take out a loan to finance your big idea- if you could get one, is a lot harder to come by when your car and home are on the line.

  • @Nahash5150
    @Nahash5150 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    It still doesn't make any sense.
    DNA is an absolutely massive molecule, and it comes with multiple layers of 'error checking' for duplication while at the same time allowing for small errors in some hope it will change the overall organism in a beneficial way?
    That's an insurmountable amount of random accidents that just happen to work.
    Biology is missing something huge by being attached to this evolution model which was proposed before anything about cells was known.
    No matter how much I study biochemistry, the less it actually makes any sense at all. No where in the universe do mere molecules behave like this.

    • @Nanorooms
      @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      An insurmountable amount of random events met with insurmountable numbers and time :)

    • @ezbody
      @ezbody 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      One of my favorite examples of these "layers" of "error checking" is schizophrenia. That's just one of thousands ways things go wrong.
      In other words, here you have fun admiring the "beauty of creation", meanwhile, there are millions of not so lucky human beings suffering or causing suffering.

    • @Nahash5150
      @Nahash5150 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Nanorooms Last I checked, we have a pretty good idea how old life is on Earth. So not insurmountable. A long time relative to our subjective experience, but frighteningly short considering the amount of chemistry required for molecules to form a DNA strain. Evolution in biochemistry is a non-sequitur. It makes scientists look stupid because any cursory examination of the processes proves there is no 'small changes over time' that take place for the whole thing to work.
      There needs to be a new theory. Evolution is archaic. It explains NOTHING.

    • @Gelatinocyte2
      @Gelatinocyte2 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      The "bad mutations" got filtered out by natural selection: either they got outcompeted, never got the chance to proliferate to begin with, or got outbreeded and essentially getting reverted back to the previous condition.

    • @laersonverissimo1715
      @laersonverissimo1715 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      “No matter how I study biochemistry, the less it makes sense”
      Narrator: He never even saw the cover of a biochemistry book.

  • @peters972
    @peters972 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    There is also epigenetics to think about though.

    • @Gelatinocyte2
      @Gelatinocyte2 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Not "though", but "too".

    • @peters972
      @peters972 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Gelatinocyte2 nope :-)

    • @Gelatinocyte2
      @Gelatinocyte2 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@peters972 I mean epigenetics adds to the layer of evolutionary complexity, it doesn't contradict it.

  • @Manigo1743
    @Manigo1743 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Drop the music.

  • @Jolfgard
    @Jolfgard 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'd be damned if epigenetics would modulate gene transfer to some degree.
    Considering that I am notoriously bad at comprehending anything that has any relation to biology whatsoever, you can rest assured that there is no direct relationship between gene expression of the parent and gene transfer to the child. Every intuition and hunch I've ever had about biology has always been hilariously wrong.

  • @edhernandez4344
    @edhernandez4344 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It's crazy to think all life on earth came from a single common ancestor. it's like this ancestor already had the blueprints for everything that would come to exist on this planet with the materials it could find, practically being shaped by it's surroundings, slowly adapting over eons to the environment it spawned into to have more and more sensory feel of the world around it. Also creating tools and pieces of bigger organisms completely separate from each other that would later merge. If that doesn't prove the existence of God, I don't know what will. It's just an ever growing paradigm of ways to feel and perceive the world.
    On a side note, I have really been wondering how a tree perceives the world, any plant for that matter.

    • @Angelmou
      @Angelmou 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The problem with that approach is however while it is compatible with a deity belief, this deity is like the gnostic demiurge not any benevolent being especially not an allloving fatherfigure in most religions wanting a relationship with humans in particular, as it is build on a gigantic mountain of a high deathtoll with trillions over trillions of suffering and dead critters even each year (if you imagine that alone the number of ants on the world is estimated to be 20 quadrillion).

    • @notionSlave
      @notionSlave 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Angelmou pretty sure the bible is saying God is testing us.

    • @Angelmou
      @Angelmou 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@notionSlave It also says that God smashes the skulls of seamonsters and that he did wrestle in combat with jacob and did lose the fight, despite of using dirty tricks like hitting him at the lower body parts or that on various occations God there liked the smell of burning animals. I meant the cutesy wootsy interpretation of loving father figure, not the "I'm the great male baboon tribe chief" text intent of the authors struggling with bronze age empires.

    • @davidaugustofc2574
      @davidaugustofc2574 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You were in the right train of thought, just missed the conclusion. This doesn't prove the need for a creator, the fact is that nothing can prove. Probably will never be proven.

    • @user-jb2om7cm8m
      @user-jb2om7cm8m 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Some evolutionary biologists have made this argument to account for the improbability of lucky mutations- that the necessary code is somehow present in the first replicators- perhaps in highly compressed form.
      I've heard this made as a secular/materialist argument against the need for creative input. But it obviously begs the question of where this information came from.

  • @bhangrafan4480
    @bhangrafan4480 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Who wrote this video and what qualifications do they have to write it? Why is there no author credit?

  • @stasglazkov8734
    @stasglazkov8734 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "You understanding of evolution is incomplete. Here is why: "
    Its not. -----> I'm a certified genius.

  • @snickeringpopcorn
    @snickeringpopcorn 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    the mitochondria is the power house of the cell

  • @deleted_handle
    @deleted_handle 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    every time the screen darkens I think my battery went low.

  • @EdT.-xt6yv
    @EdT.-xt6yv 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    6:20

  • @christianhorn1999
    @christianhorn1999 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    sad for the mouse

  • @lop2167
    @lop2167 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What happens if you add the leg genes to a snake? I wanna see it lol

  • @thesimplicitylifestyle
    @thesimplicitylifestyle 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What happens when the software starts intentionally changing its own hardware? 😎🤖

  • @oatlord
    @oatlord 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    So, are there legit labs out there making custom animals now?

    • @Angelmou
      @Angelmou 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Labs test at the current time to fill broken parts in to crosscheck - birds for example are dinosaur variations coming originally from archosaurians, still having the gene structures for the sauropsid teeth, but they are missing the parts to grow them due to their beak selection. So labs filled the parts again from the crocodile teeth genome as crocodilomorphs are just like birds modern archosaur descendants more closely related to birds and the bird embryos did regrow saurian teeth in that matter. In hypothesis it may be possible to debreed birds to theropod dinosaurs, but they would not be identical to them as many errors are not easily to be undone or where we do not have the orignal DNA as comparison material. It would also cost way to much without any commercial relevance.

    • @someguy999
      @someguy999 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      We've been mutating animals in the lab for a century now! If you mean cute and fuzzy animals, rather than fruit flies, we've still been doing mutagenesis experiments for decades. The first gene editing in mice was done in 1974!

    • @Crembaw
      @Crembaw 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes they’re called farms.

  • @Clockworkbio
    @Clockworkbio 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

    • @Nanorooms
      @Nanorooms  25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Big fan of your work too!

    • @Clockworkbio
      @Clockworkbio 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Nanorooms That really means a lot on my end! Nothing but respect for folks who can illuminate the math concepts in bio! Always hamstrung me in my studies.

  • @vinniepeterss
    @vinniepeterss 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ❤❤

  • @MrRenosis
    @MrRenosis 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wait, who thought it was just mutations?