I’m A Genetic Engineer. I’m Also a Fish.

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  • @SciShow
    @SciShow  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +323

    Our bad! Electric eels are freshwater fish, and do not live in the ocean. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out. Looks like all of our ocean-based jokes were not very… pacific… to electric eels.

    • @lysandroabelcher2592
      @lysandroabelcher2592 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I've just opened to comment that. I'm glad many others realised it before. Now what about thunderstorms? Aren't they more and more common in nowadays oceans, thanks to climate change? Food 4 thought...

    • @taimunozhan
      @taimunozhan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Nice to sea a correction about that

    • @Christian-lh7ux
      @Christian-lh7ux 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Me too, I couldn't cope with that false fact but you guys @SciShow are 1st accurate nerds (like me🫣) and 2nd you know your audience 😂
      Thank you for being meticulous and saving me from having to think that electric eels are freshwater fish for myself
      all day long or even longer and maybe teaching others! 😅
      ❤️

    • @donbailey831
      @donbailey831 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was literally just getting ready to comment on that

    • @randalalansmith9883
      @randalalansmith9883 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I do NOT carry oats.

  • @aliengeo
    @aliengeo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +197

    Fun fact: technically, humans (and all other vertebrate land animals) are a very specialized type of lobe-finned fish :P
    By that reasoning, "I'm a genetic engineer. I'm also a fish," could be a scientist accurately describing themself in a silly way.

    • @SherlockHolmes-rl1lg
      @SherlockHolmes-rl1lg 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @lordbalthosadinferni4384 mind blown

    • @Leyrann
      @Leyrann 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      This is what I expected the video to be about.
      But the actual topic was very interesting too, so I'm not complaining.

    • @jonahs92
      @jonahs92 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's actually exactly what I expected this video to be about lol

    • @MaryAnnNytowl
      @MaryAnnNytowl 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm very glad I wasn't the only one to immediately think this and expect the video to be about it, instead of eels and... zebrafish. 😂

    • @VoidTempests
      @VoidTempests 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, one of my professors said something similar, that we are all specialized fish.

  • @way-13
    @way-13 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

    I love the longer, more detailed, more technical style and studio of these new videos.
    I started off in middle school watching scishow, now I’m a developmental biologist who uses genetics engineering and molecular biology tools to study the evolution of face bones.

    • @tranquility1967
      @tranquility1967 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And you are still watching scishow! And that's amazing and shows that you are still open to learning. 🤩🤩

    • @whoisincornell
      @whoisincornell 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😊

    • @sharronhankins7722
      @sharronhankins7722 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Awesome 🥰🥰🥰

  • @stevewindsor3858
    @stevewindsor3858 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

    "Even your overwatered house plants" As someone who works in the Plant Care industry, my voice starts to fade at the end of a busy day from how much I tell people they overwater their plants. I thank you for casually throwing that out.

    • @Psilomuscimol
      @Psilomuscimol 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I let the first inch of soil dry completely. For bigger pots

    • @Psilomuscimol
      @Psilomuscimol 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My kratom tree would hate if I drowned it. And they're too expensive to risk it.

    • @themanhimself3
      @themanhimself3 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@Psilomuscimolis growing your own worth it? I never considered getting my own tree.

    • @Psilomuscimol
      @Psilomuscimol 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @themanhimself3 I don't think so. Especially if you live anywhere in the US that isn't Florida. Or have a greenhouse

    • @Psilomuscimol
      @Psilomuscimol 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @themanhimself3 because it grows slow and will drop its leaves if it drops below 60 Fahrenheit. So when it gets any colder than 60 I bring it inside. It will be fine here once it's big enough to go in the ground

  • @kraneiathedancingdryad6333
    @kraneiathedancingdryad6333 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +248

    "When two plants really love each other.. they give each other a *special hug* " 😉

    • @michaelteegarden4116
      @michaelteegarden4116 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      "We call it the Horizontal Gene Transfer. Because it's done horizontally, you see."

    • @Erewhon2024
      @Erewhon2024 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If one of those plants is a parasite like dodder, this has to be a case of "struggle snuggle." I doubt the host reciprocates the "affection" (lust/gluttony?).

    • @nickkorkodylas5005
      @nickkorkodylas5005 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ayo?

    • @Resetium
      @Resetium 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Erewhon2024"struggle snuggle" is a new one for me

  • @jennypulczinski7204
    @jennypulczinski7204 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

    NDSU spliced the antifreeze gene from fish into corn plants to GM a corn that can survive frost in the spring. Not sure if they ever made a variety that is planted commercially, but it is very interesting that they succeeded

    • @Abdega
      @Abdega 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I think they also did something like that for tomatoes

    • @violettracey
      @violettracey 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Awesome!

    • @gorgha3988
      @gorgha3988 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      If they can do this with plants, I wonder if they could eventually do it with humans to make cryogenics viable.

    • @Abdega
      @Abdega 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@gorgha3988 I suggest they try it with hamsters first since they seemed to have some small successes with them, along with thawing them out with microwaves

    • @violettracey
      @violettracey 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@gorgha3988 That is an interesting idea!

  • @petersmythe6462
    @petersmythe6462 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    "acquired traits aren't heritable" -Bio 101 teacher
    "WELL ACTUALLY" -Bio 501 teacher

    • @DawnDavidson
      @DawnDavidson 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I know, right? As someone with a Genetics degree from 1984, the modern era of genetics and epigenetics just blows my mind.

  • @theboulder942
    @theboulder942 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +500

    His credentials seem fishy

    • @TheOneTrueGesta
      @TheOneTrueGesta 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Badum tisss

    • @sandrastreifel6452
      @sandrastreifel6452 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      And his presentations are slimy!

    • @maximilian672
      @maximilian672 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I laughed way too hard at this 😂

    • @Pim3211
      @Pim3211 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      they don't quite belong in this academic pond

    • @North_West1
      @North_West1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Stinks.

  • @Verdictus13
    @Verdictus13 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +161

    I would read Frankenstein 2: Eelectric Boogaloo.

    • @eliospokefan1386
      @eliospokefan1386 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      HAHAHAHA banger comment

    • @lindaseel9986
      @lindaseel9986 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That would take me higher! 😂

    • @Zeuseus6609
      @Zeuseus6609 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Damn. Beaten to the joke by 9 hours lol

    • @biohazard724
      @biohazard724 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The Island of Dr. Moray

  • @connecticutaggie
    @connecticutaggie 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    "When two plants really love each other.. they give each other a special hug" but really, since it is grafting we are talking about "When two plants really love each other.. they amputate one of their arms and sow it onto the other plant".

    • @DawnDavidson
      @DawnDavidson 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That got dark really fast … 😂

    • @connecticutaggie
      @connecticutaggie 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DawnDavidson I didn't start it.

  • @terramater
    @terramater 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So fascinating! Nature surprises us! Just like our crew getting on camera beavers, who are not only beavers but also nature's engineers!

  • @eduardonoriega8667
    @eduardonoriega8667 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    This process of horizontal gene transfer is actually how Panaeolus Cyanescens aka Blue Meanies, and its similar species obtained the ability to synthesize psilocybin and psilocin, from psilocybe cubensis and others.

    • @violettracey
      @violettracey 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Cool!

    • @DawnDavidson
      @DawnDavidson 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Woot! 💙 🍄‍🟫

    • @Tinyflypie
      @Tinyflypie 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's also how I got pregnant.

  • @rondaherriott
    @rondaherriott 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    My overwatered houseplant?!
    I feel personally attacked by this …

    • @North_West1
      @North_West1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      My neglected house plant will balance your out.

    • @kellydalstok8900
      @kellydalstok8900 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Too much love will kill it in the end.
      (Paraphrased from Queen)

  • @markedis5902
    @markedis5902 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    The phrase “Love Puddle” certainly conjures an image

    • @jl7655
      @jl7655 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So does horizontal gene transfer

  • @ericarichardson2983
    @ericarichardson2983 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Horizontal gene transfer sounds like a euphemism

  • @North_West1
    @North_West1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I appreciate the use of “open mouth kissing”. Makes it more kid friendly

    • @trishapellis
      @trishapellis 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Just some bacteria kissing their homies.

    • @kashiichan
      @kashiichan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What makes it more "kid friendly"? /gen

    • @trishapellis
      @trishapellis 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@kashiichan If you have to ask, I need to wonder how old you are. Think about things that are not kid friendly. Think about the body parts, the orifices, and how they can be put together. If you've been told about the birds and the bees, you should be able to figure it out.

    • @kashiichan
      @kashiichan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@trishapellis I asked because I don't know what OP is comparing "open mouth kissing" *to*. Implying I'm a child because I asked for clarification is both patronising and unnecessary. Do better.

  • @FrozEnbyWolf150
    @FrozEnbyWolf150 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I couldn't help but think of that "Batman vs. The Penguin" skit where Batman screams, "Dr. Fishy, noooo!"

  • @mycrazylife1111
    @mycrazylife1111 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Hugo: "No look! I've been practicing. I made a pigeon-rat!"

  • @lysan1445
    @lysan1445 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    I love the way she delivers the punch lines! Perfect sense of humour!

  • @DavidDylanFisher
    @DavidDylanFisher 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Giving one animal another animal's DNA by zapping it with lightning is how genetic engineering would work in a Saturday morning cartoon, AND YET

    • @sharronhankins7722
      @sharronhankins7722 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yess THIS COMMENT ROCKS!😂😂😂

  • @quoriander
    @quoriander 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I think it's less Frankenstein and more Dr. Moreau in those electric eel love puddles

    • @FatElvis1
      @FatElvis1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Did you mean Dr. Moray? (I know it's not an electric eel b but it is an eel)

  • @howdy4504
    @howdy4504 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Most gene transfers: make me better at surviving the elements
    Electric eels: Make me a goddamn wizard

  • @JasonKjellberg
    @JasonKjellberg 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Pets cat, gets static shock from the fur, starts purring -- gene transfer complete

    • @sharronhankins7722
      @sharronhankins7722 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yess I'll like that🤔😂🤣

  • @zagarak
    @zagarak 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    I am a human. I am also a nematode

    • @joanhoffman3702
      @joanhoffman3702 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You’re also 40% fungus, just like other humans. 😂😂😂

    • @sharronhankins7722
      @sharronhankins7722 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😂🥰🥰

  • @DoctorX17
    @DoctorX17 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "... everything from you to your overwatered house plant"
    Bold of you to assume I remember to water my plants at all XD

  • @connecticutaggie
    @connecticutaggie 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    When you say the offspring of the tobacco plant, which offspring (since each graft will have its own fruit and thus offspring)?
    Grafting is more like transplantation or cloning than hugging. It takes a piece from one plant and attaches it to a different plant from a compatible species. In the end you don't end up with a "hybrid" plant but rather to plants that are sown together. The cells and flowers from one part are like the plant it came from. If you graft a Bing Cherry and a Red Haven Peach onto a Plum tree (yes, you can do that) then it will produce Bing Cherries and Red Haven Peaches, not a hybrid between the two each part is a clone of the original pant it came from.

    • @marcotedesco8954
      @marcotedesco8954 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Graft chimaeras are a thing! The most famous is probably + Laburnocytisus 'Adamii', an ornamental small tree that bears a mixture of branches and flowers like one or the other parent species AND with intermediate characters!
      From the wording in the video though I think the tobacco grafts grew true to type (is that the term?) as you described, but with evidence of having received genetic input from the rootstock.

    • @connecticutaggie
      @connecticutaggie 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@marcotedesco8954 Cool graft chimeras sound interesting. I wonder how the genes migrate within the plans. In the cases you are talking about, where does the chimeric appear? Is it on the original grafted stock or on the root stock. Also, I do like your term "true to type", kind of a spin off of "true to seed".

    • @b.a.erlebacher1139
      @b.a.erlebacher1139 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@connecticutaggie Graft chimeras occur when a bud grows at the graft junction, containing cells from both participants in the graft. The resulting branch is a weird mixture of tissues from both. The video had an image of one but it went by fast. Graft chimeras are pretty rare in normal grafting, but I suppose you could make them on purpose in tissue culture.

  • @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369
    @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Well, you know, taxonomically speaking humans are fish so thats fun

    • @shitrowersdo
      @shitrowersdo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Taxonomically speaking, fish aren't real

    • @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369
      @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@shitrowersdo Well they are if you include humans and all other descendants in it. A lot of people use it as a paraphyletic group, which are still a type of classification that hold some importance but its my preference to disregard them

  • @washingtonunibound
    @washingtonunibound 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really love the style change for the presentation. I feel like I'm retaining more information from this more conversational experience! Thanks so much for the always-awesome science videos!!

  • @theguything
    @theguything 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Super interesting, and as always Savannah is a wonderful host

  • @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x
    @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Mary Shelley was definitely on to something.
    Considering lighting more than likely needed for the 'primordial soup' to really boil just as another facet to creating life.
    But it was widely understood back then already that lightning and life had connections. And life extension and creation of new life were a fad back then, and electricity and modern surgery techiques were the new inventions science fiction could extrapolate. And she brilliantly combined them creating a timeless masterpiece riddled with philosophy and moral issues while being a fun and fairly simple read.

    • @rosalie.e.morgan
      @rosalie.e.morgan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm pretty sure lighting isn't actually used to bring Frankenstein's monster to life in the book, at least not explicitly. It has been a very long time since I read it, but I think that's one of the many things added later that stuck for almost all future versions.

    • @slawomirlachowski981
      @slawomirlachowski981 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@rosalie.e.morgan I actually had to reread beginning of Chapter 5, where monster awakens. There is no lengthy description of the exact process that was used to bring him to life, just "I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet". World "spark" seems to be used metaphorically.
      In Chapter 2 Victor Frankenstein sees tree that is destroyed by lightning. This event turns his interests to natural philosophy. But he must be perfectly aware of destructive nature of powerful electrostatic discharges by then. 1931 movie with Boris Karloff contains famous "It's Alive!" scene, where monster is brought to life during thunderstorm: th-cam.com/video/1qNeGSJaQ9Q/w-d-xo.html
      I found an article that speculates about Mary Shelley's knowledge about experiments that used electricity to reanimate corpses: www.insidescience.org/news/science-made-frankenstein

  • @AzhreiVep
    @AzhreiVep 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    10:36 And Cue me pointing out that Frankenstein was no doctor (he went into an angst coma and dropped out of college after the whole 'creating life' incident) and there was no indication of him using lightning or any other form of electricity to make his creature in Shelley's text (it's just sort of ... glossed over. He made the creature, don't worry about the details). Both are essentially inventions of relatively modern adaptations. And by 'relatively modern' I mean somewhere in the thirties.

  • @svenmorgenstern9506
    @svenmorgenstern9506 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Not really interested in getting head butted by random spiders, thanks. 🕷🐐

  • @SuperVlerik
    @SuperVlerik 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Wait: there are salt water electric eels too?

    • @zenebean
      @zenebean 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Pretty sure they, zebra fish, and goldfish are freshwater fish, so I think there is a script error

    • @SIC647
      @SIC647 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@zenebean All living things have salt water in them, and its composition corresponds to the salinity of the ocean when each of these living things evolved.
      Yes, humans too.

    • @johannageisel5390
      @johannageisel5390 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are eels not living in both fresh and salt water? I thought they were reproducing in the Sargasso Sea!?

    • @lh3540
      @lh3540 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Electric eels are freshwater knife fish found in south America

    • @Erewhon2024
      @Erewhon2024 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@johannageisel5390As lh3550 pointed out, these are not the eels of which you are thinking. "Electric eels" are merely called "eels" because they have adopted an eel-like method of swimming (& thus also appearance: snake-like body, reduced fins). They are actually a type of freshwater catfish.

  • @threecatsdancing
    @threecatsdancing 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Shoot. I was really hoping we'd figured out how to turn a person into a fish. I really, really want to be able to breathe underwater. It's the superpower I wish I had. Just call me Mrs. Limpet. 😁🤣

    • @ElijahAllenEpsilon
      @ElijahAllenEpsilon 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I understood this reference

    • @DawnDavidson
      @DawnDavidson 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@ElijahAllenEpsilonme too! 😂

  • @dth99times
    @dth99times 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I'm a boney-fish amphibian possibly-reptilian primate

  • @Zackzickel
    @Zackzickel 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    10:16 it’s also a remarkable feat for a creature that never lives in the ocean.

    • @DawnDavidson
      @DawnDavidson 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They did cop to that error in a pinned post, at least.

  • @alexv3357
    @alexv3357 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Horizontal gene transfer is a lot more Dr Moreau than Dr Frankenstein

  • @greedyProphet
    @greedyProphet 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love the work he did with Doctor Worm

  • @Bernandez4139
    @Bernandez4139 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "What have you have been working on, son?" "I used electric eels to create glowing fish!"

  • @smolseaturtle
    @smolseaturtle 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If I were a genetic engineer and I tried to shock my patients they would probably send me to jail

  • @CoperliteConsumer
    @CoperliteConsumer 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Prokaryotes are literally the animal kingdoms pan handlers. Surviving rudderlessly from handout to handout just thriving. 😂

    • @johannageisel5390
      @johannageisel5390 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Hey! You got some spare genes?"

  • @aaronstanley6914
    @aaronstanley6914 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    @10:44 that book already exists in broad strokes "I Can Turn into a Fish"

  • @ameliablack4613
    @ameliablack4613 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I tuned in thinking I'd learn a little and refresh a little, but alas! I learned a lot. You guys are awesome!!!

  • @sandrastreifel6452
    @sandrastreifel6452 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I vote for :”The Island of Dr Moreau” starring an electric eel making weird genetically engineered animal mashups!

  • @jonathanbyrdmusic
    @jonathanbyrdmusic 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My dad used to call it the horizontal gene transfer too

  • @jmr
    @jmr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    WOW! Scishow is approaching 8 million subs! Great job!

  • @highestqualitypigiron
    @highestqualitypigiron 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember at university for my research project I was trying to create a genetic recombinant e coli culture and I used electroporation to do so, it kept failing and it was driving me insane. Can't believe eels have been doing it for thousands of years and by accident too no less!

  • @DrReverendJ
    @DrReverendJ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a chemist that chemical structure at 0:11 makes my eye twitch. All hail the Texas Carbon!

  • @davidlundy2312
    @davidlundy2312 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You pretty awesome at delivering the info you share 👏👍, thank you!

  • @shadow_flame2223
    @shadow_flame2223 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    HE IS A STURGEON

  • @Rickard...
    @Rickard... 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    10:38
    That goat spider sounds like a horror film waiting to be made

  • @Nazuiko
    @Nazuiko 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you think about it, an Electric eel mad scientist is basically just a lightning version of a Zoology dragon, who drives around in his dragon wagon, that likes to mix up things like a cow and a cube (Cowube!)

  • @DrachenGothik666
    @DrachenGothik666 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When Nature finds ways to give you superpowers...

    • @sharronhankins7722
      @sharronhankins7722 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I need some superpowers nature!😆😆

  • @Psilomuscimol
    @Psilomuscimol 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love flowering plants. I'm so happy they exist

  • @katbairwell
    @katbairwell 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The one time "X 2: Electric Boogaloo" would be totally appropriate!!

  • @WeeWeeJumbo
    @WeeWeeJumbo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish!
    Fish! Fish! Fish! (eating fish!) -- Mr Scruff's seminal 1999 classic, Fish

    • @WeeWeeJumbo
      @WeeWeeJumbo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Trout are freshwater fish, and have underwater weapons
      [pew pew pew pew]

    • @AuntBibby
      @AuntBibby 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i used to listen to mr. scruff

  • @eyesotherworldly
    @eyesotherworldly 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    10:36 Sounds like a new Chuck Tingle novel... I'd read it 👍

  • @SAmaryllis
    @SAmaryllis 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Happy to learn about such a bizarre concept. Thanks for researching and sharing this!

  • @phoenixfritzinger9185
    @phoenixfritzinger9185 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    9:24 so it turns out that the lyrics to the MGMT song Electric Feel are a lot more literal than I assumed
    The gene transfer there might be vertical but the activity is definitely still horizontal
    … and I said ooh girl

  • @Lvestfold4143
    @Lvestfold4143 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This means Electro is a much more formidable villain for Spider-Man than originally thought.

  • @theninja4137
    @theninja4137 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "They might not understand the concept of engineering"
    I've had colleagues like that too

  • @Sugar3Glider
    @Sugar3Glider 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Can we take a moment to salute the MTG card showing a lighting bolt strike that turned you into sheep? Blue cobtrol represent.

  • @silviavalentine3812
    @silviavalentine3812 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    10:13 I legit had the thought "oh I wonder if lightning could cause some accidentally gene transfers" and low n behold a few seconds later it was mentioned! How coincidental 😅

  • @MaryAnnNytowl
    @MaryAnnNytowl 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Knowing that humans are a specific type of fish (you can never outgrow your past clades, so we're a type of lobe-finned fish), I did truly expect a completely different video. I'm also very glad I wasn't the ONLY one to immediately think this and expect the video to be about it, instead of ferns and hornworts and eels and zebrafish. Not all together in one spot, mind you. 😂 Though that would be some _weird, kingdom-bending_ transfers! 😲

  • @mondredgaming8927
    @mondredgaming8927 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I don't have an overwatered house plant, it's underwatered thank you. lol

  • @MontgomeryWenis
    @MontgomeryWenis 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Horizonal gene transfer is wild. I realized plants can do it when my dad threw pumpkin and melon rinds and seeds in our compost and a horrible mutant gourd started growing. My dad even tasted it.
    Morning glories can also do it. I planted Scarlet O'Haras and Bluebells in the same pot and ended up with wild tie-dye flowers.

    • @rosalie.e.morgan
      @rosalie.e.morgan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Remember that a lot of commercially relevant plants just don't breed true, so it could just be the result of more mundane reproduction.

  • @crss29
    @crss29 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I am a genetic engineer and a fish because "you can't evolve out of a taxon".

  • @RachelJoanDale
    @RachelJoanDale 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Nature is wonderful

  • @josteinksne3236
    @josteinksne3236 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey @SciShow, Thanks for many fun examples.
    How about Agrobacterium?

  • @nariu7times328
    @nariu7times328 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    kudos to the writing on this episode, HYSERICAL

  • @thomaskeil1437
    @thomaskeil1437 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She is great. She communicates very well.

  • @JR13751
    @JR13751 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Could viruses be vectors for horizontal gene transfer in multicellular organisms?

  • @gso619
    @gso619 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm picking up "horizontal gene transfer" as a euphamism.

  • @bruhbruh3080
    @bruhbruh3080 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you guys should put the topic in the title. like ‘i’m a genetic engineer, i’m also a fish - horizontal gene transfer’

  • @mathnerd97
    @mathnerd97 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Horizontal Gene Transfer is my new euphemism

  • @GabrielMartinez-zm9dg
    @GabrielMartinez-zm9dg 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    :Chimera ants music plays in the background:

  • @AKindOfDog
    @AKindOfDog 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would absolutely read Frankenstein 2: this time it’s fish

  • @lynnpardo
    @lynnpardo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So well done

  • @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x
    @4124V4TA-SNPCA-x 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I thought there will be one or more genetic engineer interviewed and they would be the fish since we are all much of a fish as sharks, eels, or electric eels (who are scientifically speaking neither eels nor fish).
    But it was a nice video seven there wasn't any new material in it for me.

  • @jarod1875
    @jarod1875 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "horizontal gene transfer" sounds like what scientists call it when their kids are in the room

  • @catatonicbug7522
    @catatonicbug7522 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Spider goat, spider goat... Does whatever a spider goat does...

  • @violettracey
    @violettracey 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome! Thanks!

  • @harvest5218
    @harvest5218 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So can horizontal gene transfer happen between plants and animals? Or fungi and animals? I want cell walls and the ability to digest wood.

  • @JustWasted3HoursHere
    @JustWasted3HoursHere 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wait a second...Did I hear that right? Some ferns eject spores that then eject their own SPERM into a puddle?

  • @guard13007
    @guard13007 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm more surprised to learn that people generally don't know that horizontal gene transfer happens naturally than I am to learn any of the specific details in here. I've heard about it so many times over the past decade that I thought it had become somewhat common knowledge. o.O

  • @deankirkby8047
    @deankirkby8047 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shows how life is more connected to one another

  • @verdazair
    @verdazair 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Missed opportunity for "a fish that frequents the 'bears' or 'no bears' regions"! 🤣

  • @cindygr8ce
    @cindygr8ce 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm feeling attacked with the over watered house plants

  • @jonsims4099
    @jonsims4099 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dr worm been real quiet since this dropped

  • @vallaurent2035
    @vallaurent2035 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is probably also how amino acids were created electricity, and the right type of pond/Darwin, Miller/urey professors, UC Berkeley experiment.

  • @davidlindroos9934
    @davidlindroos9934 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Everything becomes crabs. Thanks eels.

  • @tonytins
    @tonytins 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who knew Frankenstein was actually onto something.

  • @mikezizis3725
    @mikezizis3725 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you scishow for this remarkable video. The fish presented as Danio Rerio is actually Devario Aequipinnatus. As they say, just sayin ...

  • @NC-oy8hq
    @NC-oy8hq 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Look like my old fish ? on the thumbnail. Was 26 inches long and 3 inches diameter. Do NOT touch 😂

  • @SuLokify
    @SuLokify 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Taxonomically, all professional genetic engineers are fish.

  • @Name-ot3xw
    @Name-ot3xw 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Clint over at Clint's Reptiles says that we're basically the hagfish of reptiles, this tracks.

  • @dustinjolicoeur6138
    @dustinjolicoeur6138 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great vid.

  • @TomwithOnions
    @TomwithOnions 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well now that I know gene transfer between unrelated animal species is possible, I am going to NYC to get bit by every spider I can get my hands on

  • @roboslug7582
    @roboslug7582 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm not sure if horizontal gene transfer is possible between me and Penelope Cruz, but I'd be willing to give it a try. Well, lots of tries. You know, for science.

  • @AWillforY
    @AWillforY 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    For the sciences! For the algorithm!

    • @AILIT1
      @AILIT1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      R' amen