{"id":127036,"date":"2021-09-01T08:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/biologists-just-got-closer-to-the-dna-secrets-that-stop-species-from-interbreeding"},"modified":"2021-09-01T08:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T15:22:38","slug":"biologists-just-got-closer-to-the-dna-secrets-that-stop-species-from-interbreeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/biologists-just-got-closer-to-the-dna-secrets-that-stop-species-from-interbreeding","title":{"rendered":"Biologists Just Got Closer to The DNA Secrets That Stop Species From Interbreeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biologists-just-got-closer-to-the-dna-secrets-that-stop-species-from-interbreeding3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We think of DNA as the vitally important molecules that carry genetic instructions for most living things, including ourselves. But not all DNA actually codes proteins; now, we\u2019re finding more and more functions involving the non-coding DNA scientists used to think of as \u2018junk\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A new study suggests that satellite DNA \u2013 a type of non-coding DNA arranged in long, repetitive, apparently nonsensical strings of genetic material \u2013 may be the reason why different species can\u2019t successfully breed with each other.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that satellite DNA plays an essential role in keeping all of a cell\u2019s individual chromosomes together in a single nucleus, through the work of cellular proteins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We think of DNA as the vitally important molecules that carry genetic instructions for most living things, including ourselves. But not all DNA actually codes proteins; now, we\u2019re finding more and more functions involving the non-coding DNA scientists used to think of as \u2018junk\u2019. A new study suggests that satellite DNA \u2013 a type of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127036","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}