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Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve

2024/1/10
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Quanta Science Podcast

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By watching “minimal” cells regain the fitness they lost, researchers are testing whether a genome can be too simple to evolve. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Hidden Agenda” by Kevin MacLeod.