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Re:The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now a... by colordrops on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:17AM (#20682792)
How exactly would an apple "randomly" acquire a jellyfish gene?
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Re:The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now a... by adrianN on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:26AM (#20682830)
The same way that fish eventually acquired the "lungs" genes.
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Re:The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now a... by crag on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:45AM (#20682901)
//The same way that fish eventually acquired the "lungs" genes.

Which took a million years. But now watch out - we can do it in 4 hours. That's the difference.

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Re:The fungus that devastates the Cavendish banana has now a... by colordrops on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @12:35AM (#20682869)
That's not how it works. There are not one universal set of genes for "lungs". When two species develop a similar characteristic, the genes are still completely different.
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