LOL fundies.

[seiberwing]

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The sad part? These people are dead serious.

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[pivot89.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's easy. Humans are just chimps in a different stage of their life cycle. *sage nod*

Or is that the other way round? Whatever.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

It would explain so much.

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

ROTFLOLWTOOME!

We were talking about Alternation of Generations in Bio Lab yesterday (in green algae and plants, the organisms exist in 2 sifferent "stages" haploid and diploid -- and in some kinds of plants [mosses and ferns particularly] these are separate and free-living). At the time it was a controversial idea -- and they thought it was 2 distinct organisms -- rather like dogs having kittens, and cats then having dogs .....

nods.

[pivot89.livejournal.com]

What was the last half of that one? *curious*

By strange coincidence, I was reading about that the other day... *pines for her tree book*

So... maybe humans are haploid, chimps are the diploids, and couch potatoes are the tetraploid forms?

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

You mean Wiping Tears Out Of My Eyes?

If you ever want to get into Weird Sex -- look to the Algae for examples ... some of the reds have *three* life stages! -- and in some cases (if I'm not mistaken) they all look different .....

Hmmm. Tetraploids could produce progeny with other tetraploids ... triploids on the other hand, would probably be sterile .....

[pivot89.livejournal.com]

Ahh, that would be it, thanks.

I'll have to look them up, then. Have to say, now that I'm discovering really wild genetics (plants and algae - always the quiet ones, isn't it?), my do those punnet squares look tame. Not that, y'know, they weren't kinda tame to begin with, but now they look ridiculously simple.

Who would the triploids be? (Maybe the octoploids are X-men?)

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

After we did the Fruit Lab, I had a vegetarian student tell me she was never going to look at food the same way again! eat meat ... eat sex organs ...

*giggle*

It's not so much that the genetics are weird -- and there's so much that we've learned since I actually *had* genetics -- this ain't yo momma's genetics any more! They think that most plants are probably of hybrid origin (so much for the Biological Species Concept!) things like Oaks and Violets are *very* promiscuous!

Octaploids? X-Men, definitely. That works very nicely. Triploids? I'd have to think about that. Triploid plants *can* reproduce -- it doesn't happen very often -- and it's usually a case of autopoloploidy so the offspring is then hexaploid ... There's a Japanese Trillium that's like that.

[pivot89.livejournal.com]

*snicker at the vegetables* (And suddenly I'm reminded why I wanted to write dryads for NaNoWriMo...)

*nod* I think I've been well and truly cured of the species thing - I'm sorta seeing the plant world as one vaguely-defined sea of genes that don't actually give a damn where they're 'supposed' to belong. Plant genes = trading cards.

Hexaploids must be horseshoe crabs. Just to have a really wild leap of species. (Well, since the reptile-fish link is estalished...)

On a completely unrelated note, 'hexaploid' is a very pretty word.

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

LOL I love the analogy "plant genes == trading cards"

And that doesn't even begin to consider what goes on *inside* a plant! Mitochondrial <--> nuclear transfer -- and then there's the whole Jumping Gene thing going on ..... (Myrtle, I don't like this neighborhood -- let's move Over There!)

[pivot89.livejournal.com]

Heh, you could treat the chromosomes as booster packs, as well...

It's like chaos, only functional! O.O Just goes to show, plants might have a reputation for being slow and immobile, but that's just really
good cover.

[florentinescot.livejournal.com]

nods. yeah you could! :-)

heh. If you've ever been around Kudzu, you know "immobile" isn't true .....

[pivot89.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Good point!