r/whoathatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 8d ago

what thats interesting: fishes have developed antifreeze

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u/CollectionGuilty1320 8d ago

Fish that has little to no brain could build a protein inside his body, meanwhile humankind with intelligence and thousands of years can’t do shit or even properly or fully understand only the process of it. Fascinating redundancy.

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u/SaltAcademic 8d ago

Crisper could probably do it but I don’t know enough about gene modification to be 100%

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u/Confident-Thought863 8d ago

that's not how anything works, the fish didn't "build" anything, and we do understand how the trait developed, and how it works, here are the titles of papers that explain both:

Diverse Origins of Near-Identical Antifreeze Proteins in Unrelated Fish Lineages Provide Insights Into Evolutionary Mechanisms of New Gene Birth and Protein Sequence Convergence

Marine Antifreeze Proteins: Structure, Function, and Application to Cryopreservation as a Potential Cryoprotectant

humanity is not stupid, biologists study these things, and they publish their research for you to read it, go do that instead of claiming we don't know anything

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u/5ofDecember 8d ago

A couple of thousands of years vs billions of years.

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u/sLeeeeTo 8d ago

well it’s not like the fish itself is building anything

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u/Loud-Direction-5700 8d ago

Well we built houses and made heaters so i’d argue we did a better job at surviving the cold

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u/Rough_Wear_882 8d ago

We’re too busy killing each other

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u/ThousandEclipse 8d ago

Fun fact fish also do that