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Published: 2005-11-10 14:59:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 1516; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 97
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By-product of evolution. I've never figured out how the number of chromosomes were supposed to change. I thought that was called 'mutation' and was generally a bad thing.No wonder it went extinct.
It'd have been a lot funnier if I'd actually been studying Bio, but I wasn't. I was, however, on page 33 of that darn karangan book and feeling slightly demented.
Now that I think about it, I wish I'd given it horns.
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Love it. It would hurt, but if you trained it not to attack eyes...it would be a pretty kick-ass pet.
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It certainly is an interesting concept, especially when we just went over chromosomes recently
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This is a very oroginal idea! I'd add more highlights and shadows to the eyeball, though. And the eyelashes lok a bit funny...it looks like if they're growing right out of the eye.
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Thank you! Yeah, I guess it's not very anatomically correct... it's been a long time since I made this, and I was in a hurry when I did.
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS, +FAV
origianl and cool and awesome and yes, needs horns
BTW,
Mutations occur all the bloody time, when dna is replicating, during recombination... it's where a nucliotide is inserted, deleted or replaced in dna/rna, most of them are actually repaired by the cell... in most cases there is no real effect, or a negative one, but sometimes its posative and thats where survival of the fittest and evolution comes in.
as for changing the number of chromosomes, this happenes during metosis/mitosis (one of those) when the replicated dna is split UNEVENLY between the two daugter cell... resulting in extra in one and less in the other (This is the cause of down-sindrome in humans).
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Well, I meant as in, how humans have 46 chromosomes and apes have either 44 or 48 or something similar. What I'm saying is that stuff like Down Syndrome happens when there is one extra chromosome in the human cells (and is a negative effect). For two extra to be added is somewhat more unlikely than 1. Children so mutated usually die, either stillborn or just after birth. How on earth did it just so happen that a mommy ape with 46 chromosomes met a daddy ape who also happened to have 46 chromosomes and had little furless babies with him? Furthermore, how did that happen about as many times as we have species on the planet?
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Thats the main critisim of evolution, that fact that such extremes could form... but the thing to remember is mutations and such are occuring relativly all the time, consitantly, over billions of years and generations. It's a hard concept to grasp but with so much time and mutations the probability of "positive" mutation and evolution dramatically increases to the point of possibility
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Thanks for the fav though.
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Awesome drawing! 0_- that looks really painful...
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I bet it is. 
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See, it's stuff like this that's happening more and more often and causing the rate of vision correction to increase. Damn monsters crawling around, tearing up our lenses!
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Gives whole new meaning to the phrase "hang on, there's something in my eye..." Something EVIL. And SCALY. With CLAWS. Gleep.
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Yeah. I totally want it for a pet.
I think it would make a very cool pet. Although not in my eye.
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Oooh mutation!
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Mutation is when, during the time when your DNA is first made (Whether split from another like bacterium or combined like a man and a woman) and a letter pair is accidentally inserted or removed.
How more chromatin get added is a good question...
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that looks like it hurt...
that's neat tho!
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...O_O I wish I understood a single word you said...
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Whoa, talk about getting a bug in the eye! I like this!
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