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UNIQUE STATUS. “The manner in which information flows through and between cells and sub-cellular structures is quite unlike anything else observed in nature.” https://lnkd.in/ewsT9EQ View in LinkedIn

UNIQUE STATUS. “The manner in which information flows through and between cells and sub-cellular structures is quite unlike anything else observed in nature.” https://lnkd.in/ewsT9EQ View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION. “Although it is notoriously hard to identify precisely what makes life so distinctive and remarkable, there is general agreement that its informational aspect is one key property, and perhaps the key property.” https://lnkd.in/ewsT9EQ View in LinkedIn

REPLICATIVE INFORMATION. “The origin of life can be understood mathematically to be the origin of information that can replicate.” This may be the best definition yet. https://lnkd.in/eQatsFK View in LinkedIn

THE TRANSITION POINT. “Although few are willing to accept a simple self-replicating molecule as living, the assumption is that after a sufficiently long period of Darwinian evolution this humble replicator will eventually be transformed into an entity complex enough that it is indisputably living.” (Think prions for this gnarly one!) https://lnkd.in/ewsT9EQ View in LinkedIn

SLIEGT OF HAND. “Often the issue of defining life is sidestepped by assuming that if one can build a simple chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution, then the rest will follow suit and the problem of life's origin will de facto be solved.” https://lnkd.in/ewsT9EQ View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA SURPRISE. "Remarkably, these findings in a hermaphrodite infer that sex is connected to gene evolution in the complete absence of differences in sex-specific genome regions." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA FEMALE ASCENDANCY. "The results revealed that in this organism, female-biased genes exhibit rapid protein-level evolution, lowered optimal codon usage, elevated levels of positive selection, and stronger signals of selective sweeps compared with male-biased genes." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA DUAL ROLES. "The male structure may serve dual roles, one as a male donor during fertilization and another as an asexual spore that grows vegetatively or form anastomosis cells that link into networks." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn

NEUROSPORA MECHANISM. "The much larger female protoperithecium accepts the nucleus from the male structure, harbors karyogamy and meiosis, and shelters and sustains the developing offspring until release; thus, production of female structures is apt to be a greater investment for reproduction than the smaller, male structures, which solely contributes the fertilizing nucleus. Also similar to many animals/plants, the male donor cells are produced in much higher numbers than the female tissues." https://lnkd.in/eUbE-is View in LinkedIn