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pretty fucked up that eukaryotic and prokaryotic DNA polymerases arent homologous https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809583/
like, super fucked up actually
refused to believe it first time i heard of it
still mad this didn't come up in any classes i ever had
refused to believe it first time i heard of it
still mad this didn't come up in any classes i ever had
ran across a paper arguing that the last universal common ancestor had an RNA genome and i was like dont be silly, we both use DNA now so occam's razor that shit bro
then they brought out THIS joker of a fact and i didnt know what to do
still dont
then they brought out THIS joker of a fact and i didnt know what to do
still dont
i suspect one unfortunate side effect of the creationism wars is that there is a temptation to gloss over how very, very little we know about deep evolution
RNA world hypothesis and such is cool shit and all but there's a lot that just plain don't make any sense
