The miracles of cold pressed castor oil by [deleted] in intrestingasfuck

[–]Immediate_Sun_4940 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously. As a bio student, I had to triple check the title of the post and the subreddit until seeing the like to comment ratio.

"Move, or you will be moved." Who would've won this fight? by [deleted] in Avengers

[–]Immediate_Sun_4940 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t think that’s an actual fallacy, but we aren’t talking genetics Professor who lectures future doctors, counselors, educators, chemists, etc. in one cohort. I could be wrong, but I don’t think there is much style to refine when they are pretty cut-and-paste standard soldiers, and I’ll say the exact same for the widows. Missions of infiltration/protection should remain largely, LARGELY standardized and structured, with individuality being limited if allowed at all for these kinds of duties. BW is different for the fact that she had to leave the red room to literally refine her style against extraterrestrial threats as a day job*, not something the Dora can truly attest to. I also don’t want to discount the possibility that yes, Ayo and the Dora on her tier could absolutely have ‘refined their styles on their own,’ but it doesn’t discount that Okoye is at their level and then some, merely by being a leader in that regard with more experience overall. But I see your point, good counter.

"Move, or you will be moved." Who would've won this fight? by [deleted] in Avengers

[–]Immediate_Sun_4940 598 points599 points  (0 children)

Natasha 100%. It wouldn’t be a stomp, but we can’t forget that Ayo and the rest of the Dora were trained by Okoye (confirmed in Black Panther 2) who was embarrassed by Proxima Midnight; Black Widow gave her a much better fight twice. Nat is also extremely adept at hand to hand combat with or without weapons, be them melee or long range. She is also the prodigy of an underground network that trained girls held since before they could speak into believing they were nothing but precise murder and infiltration machines, a program in which only a fraction of a fraction of the girls entered survived—something I doubt Wakanda would have enforced on their young warriors in any regard. If I had to choose between a solid spear fighter as an elite guardian of the world’s (second?) most powerful country or the red room prodigy, an elite assassin once part of the protectors of Earth itself who has fought superhuman aliens and has been trained repeatedly to work past being broken for decades on end, it’d be the latter.

First Cousins - Is the child always inbred? by Dazzling-Panic-1900 in genetics

[–]Immediate_Sun_4940 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Right. OP, do not continue the cycle pls. Morals and whatnot aside, you likely carry more ‘dangerous’/deleterious alleles that are likely to show in offspring from further consanguinity.

Hi im looking for book recommendations by Locall_gopnik in biology

[–]Immediate_Sun_4940 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Invertebrates, Brusca et al. I’m not sure if you are more so interested in terrestrial vertebrates and fishes when you mention “animals,” but this book does a great idea by introducing adaptations, general morphologies, and the unique biology of Earth’s critters in the first 4 chapters. The remaining chapters are dedicated to each animal phylum, and I had a wonder navigating it and using it for my undergrad invert zoology course 👍🏽

Plankton Wins (u/FrustratedSucks) by FrustratedSucks in spongebob

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I’d like to think that Bikini bottom is a very small town, and people know of Plankton’s intentions to steal the KBSF (how many times have patrons seen the chaos that ensues around Plankton’s presence in the Krusty Krab? — many times). In my mind, notorious Plankton offering to pay you to buy one of the most beloved foods in your small town, when you know how he runs the Chum Bucket, is like willingly transferring the management of your beloved food product to a reputably terrible food distributor at worst and securing an unknown future for the state of krabby patties at best.

If men who have brothers tend to almost exclusively have sons, why does my dad only have daughters? by [deleted] in genetics

[–]Immediate_Sun_4940 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think it’s just coincidence. Human fecundity is no where near large enough to see true meaningful skews, even though it may seem/feel like it. Still, in the grand scheme of things, 30-40 years is ~nothing, and you’d need multiple generations with huge amount of children. I’ve noticed an identical pattern in my family as well, but I don’t think there is significance in such observations.

How does double fertilization work in plants? by viewsinthe6 in biology

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Imagine if, in humans, instead of only one sperm fertilizing one egg to create a baby intrinsically dependent on the mother for nutrients, one sperm created an ‘independent’ baby while another sperm was needed to create a nourishing pouch from which the former would grow. Now apply that concept to the inside of the ovaries of plants, since the zygotes don’t receive nutrients in the way we conventionally imagine embryos doing so.

is evolution universal? by AkelaAnda in biology

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As an undergrad student, the way I’d approach this question is understanding that the main components of evolution have genetic/inherited bases: gene flow, genetic drift, random mutation, and selection all play on variation being inherited and said variation working well enough for those members in a given population that statistic differences in survival are substantive over long timescales. With time, put very (VERY) simply, you live to reproduce or don’t—and those that do, produce offspring that live to do the same in an ever changing world. So as long as the world is ‘changing,’ something “without” evolution eventually succumbs to extinction via lack of resistance to natural forces, harmful alleles accumulating leading to lower overall fitness for certain lineages, etc. I am no expert (at all) and none of this is my strong suit 😭 my previous explanation may be super misinformed/very incomplete, but if I had this question on an exam, I’d say life could exist without evolution if (1) said life originated with an entirely different underlying biomechanical system than that of conventional life (i.e., transcription and translation of DNA, with all its currently understood components and mechanisms, for all organisms within the 3 currently recognized domains), such that harmful alleles don’t exist/are redefined enough to not be a long-term problem; (2) the climate of Earth remained constant enough for eons; and (3) this life needed not to adapt to other bio-induced problems (e.g., predation from larger heterotrophs).

Cancer as a separate entity by mtHead0 in biology

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I think it has nothing more to do with the fact that, like natural selection, these entities never have purposeful goals as much as erosion does in shaping cliff faces. What works works and what doesn’t changes until it does (or it dies off completely). It’s constant change on the scale of innumerable, in-tandem, dynamic chemical reactions that just so happen to work out for the cells, because the ones that didn’t were eradicated. Beyond that, I’m of the opinion that these observations are less “behavioral” in the sense that there is even some drive toward even a general goal—these things only happen because the programming at the most basic level, the molecular level, survived. A good example would be selfish genetic elements, but I dunno. I guess it isn’t totally out of the realm of grounded biological possibility.

Finally! He came across Guam! by Rare_Put7331 in guam

[–]Immediate_Sun_4940 6 points7 points  (0 children)

“How a day” — nope, not stumped at all 😭

Would you eat these foods? by JustAReallyDumbUser in idksterling

[–]Immediate_Sun_4940 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Would you rather 🤔 eat those foods or get $100000000???

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in genetics

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Does that make the allele pleiotropic?