How Oscar the gene invented sex
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
English - December 15, 2020 04:30 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 3.3K ratingsSociety & Culture Science leadership entrepreneurship interview business health news politics entrepreneur comedy fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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 Oscar. Hundreds of millions of years ago Oscar 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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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 Oscar. Hundreds of millions of years ago Oscar 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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