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Easily becoming one of my favorite shows on RoosterTeeth.
LONGER please.
well considering she films all of these when she visits the states between doing her doctorate in England, It would be hard to do that unless she abandoned her studies and moved to the states.
Long!
I honestly enjoy this series, and get excited every time I see uploaded
I think we all want longer episodes, but it is difficult since Sally is still in the middle of her doctorate in England. And of course they shot all the episodes within a week or so during what I'm guessing was her Christmas break (so almost no chance of the episodes lengthening throughout the season).
BTW if you guys are curious about Sally's green flies, my guess is that she is using "Green Fluorescent Protein" flies. GFP animals are really fun to play with so I recommend that people google them.
Of all the evolutionary traits, I feel we need tails. Prehensile of course.
All I could think of the first half of this episode was Gavin and Michael playing Manual Samuel.
Also, if you are interested in how to train yourself to hold your breath for incredibly long periods of time, David Blaine did a Ted Talk about how he held his breath for 17 minutes.
I don't expect an answer but this made me curious about Sally's flies that glow green in UV and I don't know how to phrase the question. Do you also get variations in the green and the glow? So like if a fly was glowing slightly yellower than green would that be selected for or discarded? And would a fly that fit the green category but it's glow was dimmer than the majority of the other flies be discarded?
Obviously that would depend on the conclusion you're after but would that be considered a weak and irrelevant variation in the trait you're trying to select for or is the variation in a trait less important than actually having the trait at all?
This would depend on if the 'glow green' trait was discrete or continuous, and by that I mean is the trait that gives the fly its green glow a single gene (so a green or not-green) or a collection of genes all contributing to create the green glow. If the trait was continuous (such as height) then any variation in one of the genes may result in a variation in the 'green' phenotype, which theoretically may mean a different shade. However I believe, having worked with fluorescent organisms myself in the lab, that the green glow under UV light is dictated by the single GFP gene -- which has been cloned from an organism such as jellyfish and then inserted into the fly's genome. In which case the fly offspring wouldn't have variation from the gene, such as you would with a continuous trait of height, but would either be the intitial green glow shade or not (much like if someone has a heritable condition like cystic fibrosis or not).
Of course as we advance through genetics we find that things are more and more complex than we initially thought, so there may be other genes which interact with the GFP gene (epistasis) to give the appearance that there is continuous variation in the trait -- however I currently believe this is not the case with Green fluorescence.
All this is based off my own biological experience in my career, I do not work as a green fly breeder though, so apologies if some of my details do not accurately translate -- but I'm sure the genetics are the same!
Thank you for the inormation :)
I can listen to Sally talk all day. Love this show!
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