{"id":118289,"date":"2021-01-10T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T03:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/octopuses-some-squid-edit-rna-sequences-to-adapt-to-environment"},"modified":"2021-01-10T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T03:24:08","slug":"octopuses-some-squid-edit-rna-sequences-to-adapt-to-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/octopuses-some-squid-edit-rna-sequences-to-adapt-to-environment","title":{"rendered":"Octopuses, Some Squid Edit RNA Sequences to Adapt to Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/octopuses-some-squid-edit-rna-sequences-to-adapt-to-environment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Octopus and squid make strange evolutionary shortcuts in adaptation. Evolution is an intricate process of change.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com\/the-great-courses-daily-team\/\">By Jonny Lupsha, News Writer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Science Alert<\/em>, species of squid and octopus may yet have some surprises in store for us. \u201cIn a surprising twist, scientists discovered that octopuses, along with some squid and cuttlefish species, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2829293\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">routinely edit their RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequences to adapt to their environment<\/a>,\u201d the article said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen an organism changes in some fundamental way, it typically starts with a genetic mutation\u2014a change to the DNA. Those genetic changes are then translated into action by DNA\u2019s molecular sidekick, RNA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Octopus and squid make strange evolutionary shortcuts in adaptation. Evolution is an intricate process of change. By Jonny Lupsha, News Writer According to Science Alert, species of squid and octopus may yet have some surprises in store for us. \u201cIn a surprising twist, scientists discovered that octopuses, along with some squid and cuttlefish species, routinely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}