{"id":87405,"date":"2019-02-05T09:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/fragile-dna-enables-new-adaptations-to-evolve-quickly"},"modified":"2019-02-05T09:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:02:20","slug":"fragile-dna-enables-new-adaptations-to-evolve-quickly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/fragile-dna-enables-new-adaptations-to-evolve-quickly","title":{"rendered":"Fragile DNA Enables New Adaptations to Evolve Quickly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fragile-dna-enables-new-adaptations-to-evolve-quickly2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If highly repetitive gene-regulating sequences in DNA are easily lost, then that may explain why some adaptations evolve quickly and repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/fragile-dna-enables-new-adaptations-to-evolve-quickly-20190205\/\">https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/fragile-dna-enables-new-adapt...-20190205\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If highly repetitive gene-regulating sequences in DNA are easily lost, then that may explain why some adaptations evolve quickly and repeatedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87405","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}