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Thanks for the info on Plasmids... I guess that has an impact on evolution where you start having to look at whole bacteria populations rather than just the evo

Thanks for the info on Plasmids... I guess that has an impact on evolution where you start having to look at whole bacteria populations rather than just the evolution via individuals or species to the point where the model becomes similar to the evolution of knowledge within a society.

novia 10y ago
You're right! Between plasmids and viruses, there's lots of ways that DNA can get moved around on the microscopic scale that you wouldn't expect when your intuition is concerned with multicellular organisms like us. It's sort of a balance. Multicellular organisms get a lot of benefits that single-celled organisms don't, but in exchange, multicellular organisms give up the plasticity to improve themselves on demand by aquiring new DNA to better fit their environment.
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