It may seem like cloning really only shows up regularly in science fiction, but it turns out, it's been a sneaky, significant real-world process for a super long time! In this episode we learn about cloning found in nature, labs, and...this very podcast??
It may seem like cloning really only shows up regularly in science fiction, but it turns out, it's been a sneaky, significant real-world process for a super long time! In this episode we learn about cloning found in nature, labs, and...this very podcast??
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[Truth or Fail]
Crayfish that’s been cloning itself might help us study prion diseases
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/science/mutant-crayfish-clones-europe.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/904708
Scientists envision a new insect repellant while cloning hemlock trees
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/801445
Athlete’s foot fungus rejects sex for cloning
https://today.duke.edu/2018/02/toenail-fungus-gives-sex-infect-human-hosts
https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/208/4/1657/6084243
https://gizmodo.com/the-fungi-that-cause-athletes-foot-have-given-up-on-sex-1823265768
[Trivia Question]
First cloned cat, which was named Copy Cat
https://vetmed.tamu.edu/news/press-releases/texas-am-says-goodbye-to-cc-worlds-first-cloned-cat/
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/08/813384347/remembering-cc-the-cloned-cat
[Fact Off]
Electric ant queens and males sexually reproduce but actually like two different clonal species
A 34-member “twin study” with Amazon molly fish clones
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1009151
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43069-6
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-defeating-enemy-evolution-clone-fish.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919929/
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/twins-study/about/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cross-species cloning and back-breeding as de-extinction strategies
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC521203/
https://lsspjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2195-7819-10-3
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/species-revival-bringing-back-extinct-animals
[Butt One More Thing]
Portuguese man o’ war is a colony of zooid clones, including gastrozooids for digesting (and maybe pooping)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51842-1
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/portuguese-man-o-war.html