Thread 4997919

How does the octopus have what some would say "unnatural" ability?

there's no fucking way this is true, or if it is true it's with massive restrictions

>>4997919 (OP)
It's not an "ability", or "control", it's a mechanism like digesting food or turning sugar into energy. It's just how their DNA codes for proteins in response to other chemical signals. Gene produces RNA, cell has mechanisms that automatically modify that RNA if conditions are met. Most animals use a little RNA editing. The extent to which octopi rely on it actually makes them evolve more slowly because if one of the RNA editing mechanisms fails a large chunk of their genome just stops working.

>>4997919 (OP)
Wat

The tentacle is a circle and the bases don't match up and I think someone asked ChatGPT to make a fake infographic about octopi.

>>4997919 (OP)
We have something similar "epigenetics" just a bunch of sequences that are turned on or off based on environmental conditions. I'm guessing octopi just rewrite partial sequence between bits of dormant sequences to make them active.

human nervous system has an ability to strip away the epigenetical code from a cell. Obviously its just a handful of cells being worked on, but its there

>>4997922
The AI image should be a pretty big give-away that it's complete bullshit

>>4998138
>>4999477
you kinda suck at deboonking
https://news.uchicago.edu/story/octopuses-other-cephalopods-can-adjust-cold-editing-their-rna
https://www.mbl.edu/news/how-octopuses-can-edit-their-own-rna-respond-environmental-changes-genetic-literacy-project
https://dnascience.plos.org/2023/06/08/how-and-why-the-octopus-edits-its-rna/

>>4999572
Uh huh. Can they edit their dna to stop us from eating them?

Yeah, thought so.

>>4999573
They pride themselves on being delicious. They'd have to edit the gene that give them a propensity for pride first, but they're too proud to do that.

>>4999573
>>4999822
They actually have vore fetishes and voluntarily choose to be eaten