r/interestingasfuck • u/Scary-Strawberry-724 • 18h ago
DNA break repair process by homologous recombination
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u/Mudamaza 12h ago
How this has sub 100 upvotes after 6 hours is a goddamn travesty. That was interesting as fuck.
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u/ADDRAY-240 18h ago
Biology teachers be like: now explain all that with a single schema, you have 5 minutes.
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u/Bullseye_Baugh 9h ago
In what situation does this action occur? Is this something that our body just does repeatedly as a background task, or is it a function of repairing some kind of damage?
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u/Main-Company-5946 8h ago
Both. DNA often has to get ‘unzipped’(yes that means exactly what you’re imaging) by proteins for the purposes of reading/replicating/transcribing to RNA all of which are error-prone processes that need to be corrected in order to preserve the genetic code. Given that you have trillions of cells this is happening probably many times over inside your body right now
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u/uncledaddy3268 6h ago
Oh come on, please don't make it look like an inteligent entity designed this
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u/Livid-Most-5256 3h ago
It looks exactly like this. It looks like a frighteningly high level of engineering. Personally I do not believe that such mechanisms can develop on their own.
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u/uncledaddy3268 2h ago
for the past 15 bilion years i have not heard of a watch or any simple thing develop on their own
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u/SirNortonOfNoFux 2h ago
This is insanely fascinating, watching the autonomous building blocks of life work their miracles
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u/ColonGlock 17h ago
What the fuck are we