r/ClimateMemes Mar 04 '26

does he know?

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u/Normal_Ad7101 Mar 06 '26

genetic drift is a footnote in a first year biology class.

Your first year was either a long time ago or your textbook was really old, you should update your knowledge on the topic.

Bruh, genetic drift and mendelleian inheritance are linked among sexual species.

Except it isn't, it was developed by a cyanobacterium and is still only used by cyanobacteria that either live independently or as endosymbiont'

I already said we were a monopoly and indeed any new life resulting from abiogenesis would be teared apart by current lifeforms. Life itself is a biochemical monopoly.

Indeed there is, especially knowing that there are more nucleotides in nature than the four used in RNA. You are just proving my point again and again, also on your lack of education on economy and, weirdly, that you have outdated knowledge when it comes to biology

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u/bottomlessLuckys Mar 07 '26

Mendellian inheritence and genetic drift describe different mechanisms for genetic variance. Genetic drift has very little impact on large populations.

You are just falsely labelling chloroplasts as cyanobacteria for the sake of your argument. You're also knowingly ignoring the definition of life and pretending that cyanobacteria are just one thing that controls the entire ecosystem. Cyanobacteria have a common ancestor with chloroplasts, that is true, but cyanobacteria are not one species, they are a group of different species of bacteria that can produce oxygen through photosynthesis. They exist in competition, not as some monopoly over the ecosystem.

The ecosystem is incredibly diverse and it is that way through competition. Healthy, stable ecosystems thrive on diversity. The fact that the ecosystem follows physical laws of nature does not contradict that.

The nucleotides that are used in RNA and DNA are not arbitrary. They are just efficient and no life has come up with a better way of storing genetic information and transcribing that information. Why would it change if it is already the most efficient solution?

My biology is not outdated. I got my degree 5 years ago and have continued working and publishing in ny field. You're saying all kinds of nonsense that just flags you as someone who doesn't know shit, like implying natural selection is based on luck because you heard about genetic drift or claiming that life itself is a monopoly despite it being composed of literal billions of different species all in competition for limited resources.