evolution of a single organism with two body plans

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This is interesting biology. A shape-shifting organism. It's a fungus, it has two forms, a mycelium form and a yeast form. It switches between the two based on light and nutrients.

So scientists studied the genetics of how it switches. Apparently it uses "paralogs" which are nearly identical genes that arise through duplication.

Coordinated gene family evolution shapes the genome of dimorphic Mucorales - Nature Communications

Dimorphic organisms switch between two distinct life forms, but how a single genome controls the genetic program for both states is unclear. The study identifies hundreds of convergently evolved gene families and two regulator genes, dkl and dfl, that coordinate expression to optimize the two...

www.nature.com

So this is bad news for the creationists. Now they have to tell me the probability of a gene duplication. lol

 

[Rambunctious]

This is interesting biology. A shape-shifting organism. It's a fungus, it has two forms, a mycelium form and a yeast form. It switches between the two based on light and nutrients.

So scientists studied the genetics of how it switches. Apparently it uses "paralogs" which are nearly identical genes that arise through duplication.

Coordinated gene family evolution shapes the genome of dimorphic Mucorales - Nature Communications

Dimorphic organisms switch between two distinct life forms, but how a single genome controls the genetic program for both states is unclear. The study identifies hundreds of convergently evolved gene families and two regulator genes, dkl and dfl, that coordinate expression to optimize the two...

www.nature.com

So this is bad news for the creationists. Now they have to tell me the probability of a gene duplication. lol

It seems like a meaningful way for God to help humanity grow and thrive in this world.....

 

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https://phys.org/news/2026-02-genome-distinct-fungal-bodies.html