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How oskar the gene invented sex
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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Dec 15, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
A leading scientist who studies how genes make bodies, Cassandra Extavour almost became a musician and still sings professionally. She works with an extraordinary insect gene called oskar. Hundreds of millions of years ago oskar borrowed a fragment of a bacterial DNA that made sexual reproduction possible in the vast majority of animals– including you, me, and scientists who sing.
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Released:
Dec 15, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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