{"id":194182,"date":"2024-08-07T06:24:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/sea-creature-revealed-to-have-so-much-dna-it-can-hardly-be-called-a-species"},"modified":"2024-08-07T06:24:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T11:24:11","slug":"sea-creature-revealed-to-have-so-much-dna-it-can-hardly-be-called-a-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/sea-creature-revealed-to-have-so-much-dna-it-can-hardly-be-called-a-species","title":{"rendered":"Sea creature revealed to have so much DNA it can hardly be called a species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sea-creature-revealed-to-have-so-much-dna-it-can-hardly-be-called-a-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is because the species undergoes a process <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/huge-seagrass-clone-australia-shark-bay-1711742\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Largest Clone on Earth Is Found in Australia\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">called polyploidization<\/a>, which is when a single chromosome is duplicated multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has amazing genetic diversity,\u201d study co-author Tim O\u2019Hara, a senior marine curator at Museums Victoria in Australia, told <em>Newsweek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of evolving into separate species over time, lineages readily hybridize with each other, so building up a great amount of genetic diversity. But not only that, they sometimes add their genomes together, so end up with four or more copies of each gene,\u201d O\u2019Hara said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is because the species undergoes a process called polyploidization, which is when a single chromosome is duplicated multiple times. \u201cIt has amazing genetic diversity,\u201d study co-author Tim O\u2019Hara, a senior marine curator at Museums Victoria in Australia, told Newsweek. \u201cInstead of evolving into separate species over time, lineages readily hybridize with each other, so [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194182","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}