I’m A Genetic Engineer. I’m Also a Fish.
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26 днів томуHorizontal gene transfer might not be the flashiest of names, but animals are using it to create genetic hybrids without a human in sight. Like frogs rocking the DNA snippets of snakes, and fish sharing antifreeze superpowers.
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@SciShow 25 днів тому
Our bad! Electric eels are freshwater fish, and do not live in the ocean. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out. Looks like all of our ocean-based jokes were not very… pacific… to electric eels.
@lysandroabelcher2592 24 дні тому
I've just opened to comment that. I'm glad many others realised it before. Now what about thunderstorms? Aren't they more and more common in nowadays oceans, thanks to climate change? Food 4 thought...
@taimunozhan 24 дні тому
Nice to sea a correction about that
@Christian-lh7ux 24 дні тому
Me too, I couldn't cope with that false fact but you guys @SciShow are 1st accurate nerds (like me🫣) and 2nd you know your audience 😂 Thank you for being meticulous and saving me from having to think that electric eels are freshwater fish for myself all day long or even longer and maybe teaching others! 😅 ❤️
@donbailey831 24 дні тому
I was literally just getting ready to comment on that
@randalalansmith9883 24 дні тому
I do NOT carry oats.
@theboulder942 25 днів тому
His credentials seem fishy
@TheOneTrueGesta 25 днів тому
Badum tisss
@sandrastreifel6452 25 днів тому
And his presentations are slimy!
@maximilian672 25 днів тому
I laughed way too hard at this 😂
@Pim3211 25 днів тому
they don't quite belong in this academic pond
@North_West1 25 днів тому
Stinks.
@aliengeo 25 днів тому
Fun fact: technically, humans (and all other vertebrate land animals) are a very specialized type of lobe-finned fish :P By that reasoning, "I'm a genetic engineer. I'm also a fish," could be a scientist accurately describing themself in a silly way.
@lordbalthosadinferni4384 24 дні тому
I thought exactly this Edit: so is an icththyologist a fish that studies fish in the same way a neurologist is a brain studying a brain and a physicist is particles studying particles and a chemist is chemicals studying chemicals?
@SherlockHolmes-rl1lg 24 дні тому
@@lordbalthosadinferni4384 mind blown
@Leyrann 24 дні тому
This is what I expected the video to be about. But the actual topic was very interesting too, so I'm not complaining.
@jonahs92 24 дні тому
That's actually exactly what I expected this video to be about lol
@MaryAnnNytowl 22 дні тому
I'm very glad I wasn't the only one to immediately think this and expect the video to be about it, instead of eels and... zebrafish. 😂
@kraneiathedancingdryad6333 25 днів тому
"When two plants really love each other.. they give each other a *special hug* " 😉
@michaelteegarden4116 25 днів тому
"We call it the Horizontal Gene Transfer. Because it's done horizontally, you see."
@erikjohnson9223 24 дні тому
If one of those plants is a parasite like dodder, this has to be a case of "struggle snuggle." I doubt the host reciprocates the "affection" (lust/gluttony?).
@nickkorkodylas5005 14 днів тому
Ayo?
@Resetium 3 дні тому
@@erikjohnson9223"struggle snuggle" is a new one for me
@petersmythe6462 25 днів тому
"acquired traits aren't heritable" -Bio 101 teacher "WELL ACTUALLY" -Bio 501 teacher
@DawnDavidson 24 дні тому
I know, right? As someone with a Genetics degree from 1984, the modern era of genetics and epigenetics just blows my mind.
@stevewindsor3858 25 днів тому
"Even your overwatered house plants" As someone who works in the Plant Care industry, my voice starts to fade at the end of a busy day from how much I tell people they overwater their plants. I thank you for casually throwing that out.
@Psilomuscimol 25 днів тому
I let the first inch of soil dry completely. For bigger pots
@Psilomuscimol 25 днів тому
My kratom tree would hate if I drowned it. And they're too expensive to risk it.
@themanhimself3 25 днів тому
@@Psilomuscimolis growing your own worth it? I never considered getting my own tree.
@Psilomuscimol 25 днів тому
@themanhimself3 I don't think so. Especially if you live anywhere in the US that isn't Florida. Or have a greenhouse
@Psilomuscimol 25 днів тому
@themanhimself3 because it grows slow and will drop its leaves if it drops below 60 Fahrenheit. So when it gets any colder than 60 I bring it inside. It will be fine here once it's big enough to go in the ground
@way-13 25 днів тому
I love the longer, more detailed, more technical style and studio of these new videos. I started off in middle school watching scishow, now I’m a developmental biologist who uses genetics engineering and molecular biology tools to study the evolution of face bones.
@tranquility1967 24 дні тому
And you are still watching scishow! And that's amazing and shows that you are still open to learning. 🤩🤩
@whoisincornell 19 днів тому
😊
@sharronhankins7722 17 днів тому
Awesome 🥰🥰🥰
@Verdictus13 25 днів тому
I would read Frankenstein 2: Eelectric Boogaloo.
@eliospokefan1386 25 днів тому
HAHAHAHA banger comment
@lindaseel9986 24 дні тому
That would take me higher! 😂
@Zeuseus6609 24 дні тому
Damn. Beaten to the joke by 9 hours lol
@biohazard724 21 день тому
The Island of Dr. Moray
@jennypulczinski7204 25 днів тому
NDSU spliced the antifreeze gene from fish into corn plants to GM a corn that can survive frost in the spring. Not sure if they ever made a variety that is planted commercially, but it is very interesting that they succeeded
@Abdega 25 днів тому
I think they also did something like that for tomatoes
@violettracey 25 днів тому
Awesome!
@gorgha3988 24 дні тому
If they can do this with plants, I wonder if they could eventually do it with humans to make cryogenics viable.
@Abdega 24 дні тому
@@gorgha3988 I suggest they try it with hamsters first since they seemed to have some small successes with them, along with thawing them out with microwaves
@violettracey 24 дні тому
@@gorgha3988 That is an interesting idea!
@connecticutaggie 24 дні тому
"When two plants really love each other.. they give each other a special hug" but really, since it is grafting we are talking about "When two plants really love each other.. they amputate one of their arms and sow it onto the other plant".
@DawnDavidson 24 дні тому
That got dark really fast … 😂
@connecticutaggie 24 дні тому
@@DawnDavidson I didn't start it.
@North_West1 25 днів тому
I appreciate the use of “open mouth kissing”. Makes it more kid friendly
@trishapellis 25 днів тому
Just some bacteria kissing their homies.
@kashiichan 22 дні тому
What makes it more "kid friendly"? /gen
@trishapellis 22 дні тому
@@kashiichan If you have to ask, I need to wonder how old you are. Think about things that are not kid friendly. Think about the body parts, the orifices, and how they can be put together. If you've been told about the birds and the bees, you should be able to figure it out.
@kashiichan 21 день тому
@@trishapellis I asked because I don't know what OP is comparing "open mouth kissing" *to*. Implying I'm a child because I asked for clarification is both patronising and unnecessary. Do better.
@rondaherriott 25 днів тому
My overwatered houseplant?! I feel personally attacked by this …
@North_West1 25 днів тому
My neglected house plant will balance your out.
@kellydalstok8900 24 дні тому
Too much love will kill it in the end. (Paraphrased from Queen)
@ericarichardson2983 25 днів тому
Horizontal gene transfer sounds like a euphemism
@markedis5902 25 днів тому
The phrase “Love Puddle” certainly conjures an image
@jl7655 24 дні тому
So does horizontal gene transfer
@quoriander 25 днів тому
I think it's less Frankenstein and more Dr. Moreau in those electric eel love puddles
@FatElvis1 24 дні тому
Did you mean Dr. Moray? (I know it's not an electric eel b but it is an eel)
@eduardonoriega8667 25 днів тому
This process of horizontal gene transfer is actually how Panaeolus Cyanescens aka Blue Meanies, and its similar species obtained the ability to synthesize psilocybin and psilocin, from psilocybe cubensis and others.
@violettracey 25 днів тому
Cool!
@DawnDavidson 24 дні тому
Woot! 💙 🍄🟫
@Tinyflydeposit 24 дні тому
It's also how I got pregnant.
@terramater 24 дні тому
So fascinating! Nature surprises us! Just like our crew getting on camera beavers, who are not only beavers but also nature's engineers!
@zagarak 25 днів тому
I am a human. I am also a nematode
@joanhoffman3702 24 дні тому
You’re also 40% fungus, just like other humans. 😂😂😂
@sharronhankins7722 17 днів тому
😂😂🥰🥰
@FrozEnbyWolf150 25 днів тому
I couldn't help but think of that "Batman vs. The Penguin" skit where Batman screams, "Dr. Fishy, noooo!"
@lysan1445 25 днів тому
I love the way she delivers the punch lines! Perfect sense of humour!
@howdy4504 25 днів тому
Most gene transfers: make me better at surviving the elements Electric eels: Make me a goddamn wizard
@JasonKjellberg 24 дні тому
Pets cat, gets static shock from the fur, starts purring -- gene transfer complete
@sharronhankins7722 17 днів тому
Yess I'll like that🤔😂🤣
@PretendingToBeAHuman 25 днів тому
I love the mew direction you're taking SciShow. The set looks great and gives the show a more personal touch than the green screen. The longer format is also nice since we get a bit more detail about the topic. You guys are one of my favourite edutainment shows on YT, along with Kurzgesagt and Ted-Ed!
@JJ-ml9sj 24 дні тому
Hugo: "No look! I've been practicing. I made a pigeon-rat!"
@connecticutaggie 24 дні тому
When you say the offspring of the tobacco plant, which offspring (since each graft will have its own fruit and thus offspring)? Grafting is more like transplantation or cloning than hugging. It takes a piece from one plant and attaches it to a different plant from a compatible species. In the end you don't end up with a "hybrid" plant but rather to plants that are sown together. The cells and flowers from one part are like the plant it came from. If you graft a Bing Cherry and a Red Haven Peach onto a Plum tree (yes, you can do that) then it will produce Bing Cherries and Red Haven Peaches, not a hybrid between the two each part is a clone of the original pant it came from.
@marcotedesco8954 24 дні тому
Graft chimaeras are a thing! The most famous is probably + Laburnocytisus 'Adamii', an ornamental small tree that bears a mixture of branches and flowers like one or the other parent species AND with intermediate characters! From the wording in the video though I think the tobacco grafts grew true to type (is that the term?) as you described, but with evidence of having received genetic input from the rootstock.
@connecticutaggie 24 дні тому
@@marcotedesco8954 Cool graft chimeras sound interesting. I wonder how the genes migrate within the plans. In the cases you are talking about, where does the chimeric appear? Is it on the original grafted stock or on the root stock. Also, I do like your term "true to type", kind of a spin off of "true to seed".
@b.a.erlebacher1139 23 дні тому
@@connecticutaggie Graft chimeras occur when a bud grows at the graft junction, containing cells from both participants in the graft. The resulting branch is a weird mixture of tissues from both. The video had an image of one but it went by fast. Graft chimeras are pretty rare in normal grafting, but I suppose you could make them on purpose in tissue culture.
@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x 25 днів тому
Mary Shelley was definitely on to something. Considering lighting more than likely needed for the 'primordial soup' to really boil just as another facet to creating life. But it was widely understood back then already that lightning and life had connections. And life extension and creation of new life were a fad back then, and electricity and modern surgery techiques were the new inventions science fiction could extrapolate. And she brilliantly combined them creating a timeless masterpiece riddled with philosophy and moral issues while being a fun and fairly simple read.
@rosalie.e.morgan 24 дні тому
I'm pretty sure lighting isn't actually used to bring Frankenstein's monster to life in the book, at least not explicitly. It has been a very long time since I read it, but I think that's one of the many things added later that stuck for almost all future versions.
@slawomirlachowski981 23 дні тому
@@rosalie.e.morgan I actually had to reread beginning of Chapter 5, where monster awakens. There is no lengthy description of the exact process that was used to bring him to life, just "I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet". World "spark" seems to be used metaphorically. In Chapter 2 Victor Frankenstein sees tree that is destroyed by lightning. This event turns his interests to natural philosophy. But he must be perfectly aware of destructive nature of powerful electrostatic discharges by then. 1931 movie with Boris Karloff contains famous "It's Alive!" scene, where monster is brought to life during thunderstorm: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/aaF_mX2KgZeCmoU.html I found an article that speculates about Mary Shelley's knowledge about experiments that used electricity to reanimate corpses: www.insidescience.org/news/science-made-frankenstein
@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 25 днів тому
Well, you know, taxonomically speaking humans are fish so thats fun
@shitrowersdo 25 днів тому
Taxonomically speaking, fish aren't real
@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369 25 днів тому
@@shitrowersdo Well they are if you include humans and all other descendants in it. A lot of people use it as a paraphyletic group, which are still a type of classification that hold some importance but its my preference to disregard them
@washingtonunibound 22 дні тому
I really love the style change for the presentation. I feel like I'm retaining more information from this more conversational experience! Thanks so much for the always-awesome science videos!!
@threecatsdancing 25 днів тому
Shoot. I was really hoping we'd figured out how to turn a person into a fish. I really, really want to be able to breathe underwater. It's the superpower I wish I had. Just call me Mrs. Limpet. 😁🤣
@ElijahAllenEpsilon 25 днів тому
I understood this reference
@DawnDavidson 24 дні тому
@@ElijahAllenEpsilonme too! 😂
@SuperVlerik 25 днів тому
Wait: there are salt water electric eels too?
@zenebean 25 днів тому
Pretty sure they, zebra fish, and goldfish are freshwater fish, so I think there is a script error
@SIC647 25 днів тому
@zenebean All living things have salt water in them, and its composition corresponds to the salinity of the ocean when each of these living things evolved. Yes, humans too.
@johannageisel5390 25 днів тому
Are eels not living in both fresh and salt water? I thought they were reproducing in the Sargasso Sea!?
@lh3540 24 дні тому
Electric eels are freshwater knife fish found in south America
@erikjohnson9223 24 дні тому
@@johannageisel5390As lh3550 pointed out, these are not the eels of which you are thinking. "Electric eels" are merely called "eels" because they have adopted an eel-like method of swimming (& thus also appearance: snake-like body, reduced fins). They are actually a type of freshwater catfish.
@greedyProphet 25 днів тому
I love the work he did with Doctor Worm
@dth99times 25 днів тому
I'm a boney-fish amphibian possibly-reptilian primate
@alexv3357 25 днів тому
Horizontal gene transfer is a lot more Dr Moreau than Dr Frankenstein
@jmr 25 днів тому
WOW! Scishow is approaching 8 million subs! Great job!
@theguything 24 дні тому
Super interesting, and as always Savannah is a wonderful host
@Bernandez4139 24 дні тому
"What have you have been working on, son?" "I used electric eels to create glowing fish!"
@aaronstanley6914 25 днів тому
@10:44 that book already exists in broad strokes "I Can Turn into a Fish"
@WeeWeeJumbo 25 днів тому
Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish! (eating fish!) -- Mr Scruff's seminal 1999 classic, Fish
@WeeWeeJumbo 25 днів тому
Trout are freshwater fish, and have underwater weapons [pew pew pew pew]
@AuntBibby 25 днів тому
i used to listen to mr. scruff
@sandrastreifel6452 25 днів тому
I vote for :”The Island of Dr Moreau” starring an electric eel making weird genetically engineered animal mashups!
@AnglophobiaIsevil7 25 днів тому
Prokaryotes are literally the animal kingdoms pan handlers. Surviving rudderlessly from handout to handout just thriving. 😂
@johannageisel5390 25 днів тому
"Hey! You got some spare genes?"
@davidlundy2312 24 дні тому
You pretty awesome at delivering the info you share 👏👍, thank you!
@ameliablack4613 24 дні тому
I tuned in thinking I'd learn a little and refresh a little, but alas! I learned a lot. You guys are awesome!!!
@Zackzickel 25 днів тому
10:16 it’s also a remarkable feat for a creature that never lives in the ocean.
@DawnDavidson 24 дні тому
They did cop to that error in a pinned post, at least.
@shadow_flame2223 25 днів тому
HE IS A STURGEON
@DoctorX17 21 день тому
"... everything from you to your overwatered house plant" Bold of you to assume I remember to water my plants at all XD
@AzhreiVep 24 дні тому
10:36 And Cue me pointing out that Frankenstein was no doctor (he went into an angst coma and dropped out of college after the whole 'creating life' incident) and there was no indication of him using lightning or any other form of electricity to make his creature in Shelley's text (it's just sort of ... glossed over. He made the creature, don't worry about the details). Both are essentially inventions of relatively modern adaptations. And by 'relatively modern' I mean somewhere in the thirties.
@SAmaryllis 23 дні тому
Happy to learn about such a bizarre concept. Thanks for researching and sharing this!
@highestqualitypigiron 25 днів тому
I remember at university for my research project I was trying to create a genetic recombinant e coli culture and I used electroporation to do so, it kept failing and it was driving me insane. Can't believe eels have been doing it for thousands of years and by accident too no less!
@DrReverendJ 24 дні тому
As a chemist that chemical structure at 0:11 makes my eye twitch. All hail the Texas Carbon!
@josteinksne3236 15 днів тому
Hey @SciShow, Thanks for many fun examples. How about Agrobacterium?
@Psilomuscimol 25 днів тому
I love flowering plants. I'm so happy they exist
@Rickard... 18 днів тому
10:38 That goat spider sounds like a horror film waiting to be made
@lynnpardo 21 день тому
So well done
@eyesotherworldly 25 днів тому
10:36 Sounds like a new Chuck Tingle novel... I'd read it 👍
@DavidDylanFisher 24 дні тому
Giving one animal another animal's DNA by zapping it with lightning is how genetic engineering would work in a Saturday morning cartoon, AND YET
@sharronhankins7722 17 днів тому
Yess THIS COMMENT ROCKS!😂😂😂
@svenmorgenstern9506 24 дні тому
Not really interested in getting head butted by random spiders, thanks. 🕷🐐
@katbairwell 24 дні тому
The one time "X 2: Electric Boogaloo" would be totally appropriate!!
@violettracey 25 днів тому
Awesome! Thanks!
@General12th 25 днів тому
Hi Savannah!
@theninja4137 23 дні тому
"They might not understand the concept of engineering" I've had colleagues like that too
@Nazuiko 24 дні тому
If you think about it, an Electric eel mad scientist is basically just a lightning version of a Zoology dragon, who drives around in his dragon wagon, that likes to mix up things like a cow and a cube (Cowube!)
@deankirkby8047 20 днів тому
Shows how life is more connected to one another
@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x 25 днів тому
I thought there will be one or more genetic engineer interviewed and they would be the fish since we are all much of a fish as sharks, eels, or electric eels (who are scientifically speaking neither eels nor fish). But it was a nice video seven there wasn't any new material in it for me.
@carlosguimaraes624 24 дні тому
AWESOME!
@thomaskeil1437 23 дні тому
She is great. She communicates very well.
@phoenixfritzinger9185 18 днів тому
9:24 so it turns out that the lyrics to the MGMT song Electric Feel are a lot more literal than I assumed The gene transfer there might be vertical but the activity is definitely still horizontal … and I said ooh girl
@AWillforY 25 днів тому
For the sciences! For the algorithm!
@AILIT1 25 днів тому
R' amen
@GabrielMartinez-zm9dg День тому
:Chimera ants music plays in the background:
@roboslug7582 25 днів тому
I'm not sure if horizontal gene transfer is possible between me and Penelope Cruz, but I'd be willing to give it a try. Well, lots of tries. You know, for science.
@Sugar3Glider 25 днів тому
Can we take a moment to salute the MTG card showing a lighting bolt strike that turned you into sheep? Blue cobtrol represent.
@MontgomeryWenis 24 дні тому
Horizonal gene transfer is wild. I realized plants can do it when my dad threw pumpkin and melon rinds and seeds in our compost and a horrible mutant gourd started growing. My dad even tasted it. Morning glories can also do it. I planted Scarlet O'Haras and Bluebells in the same pot and ended up with wild tie-dye flowers.
@rosalie.e.morgan 24 дні тому
Remember that a lot of commercially relevant plants just don't breed true, so it could just be the result of more mundane reproduction.
@MaryAnnNytowl 22 дні тому
Knowing that humans are a specific type of fish (you can never outgrow your past clades, so we're a type of lobe-finned fish), I did truly expect a completely different video. I'm also very glad I wasn't the ONLY one to immediately think this and expect the video to be about it, instead of ferns and hornworts and eels and zebrafish. Not all together in one spot, mind you. 😂 Though that would be some _weird, kingdom-bending_ transfers! 😲
@RachelJoanDale 25 днів тому
Nature is wonderful
@mikezizis3725 25 днів тому
Thank you scishow for this remarkable video. The fish presented as Danio Rerio is actually Devario Aequipinnatus. As they say, just sayin ...
@vallaurent2035 9 днів тому
This is probably also how amino acids were created electricity, and the right type of pond/Darwin, Miller/urey professors, UC Berkeley experiment.
@jonathanbyrdmusic 25 днів тому
My dad used to call it the horizontal gene transfer too
@logenvestfold4143 24 дні тому
This means Electro is a much more formidable villain for Spider-Man than originally thought.
@zackakai5173 25 днів тому
All you have to do is define the word "fish" according to phylogeny rather than morphology, then we're all fish! 😛
@DrachenGothik666 24 дні тому
When Nature finds ways to give you superpowers...
@sharronhankins7722 17 днів тому
I need some superpowers nature!😆😆
@floramew 25 днів тому
I appreciate your assumption that my house plants are over watered, lmao.
@sandrastreifel6452 25 днів тому
It’s REALLY hard to overwater most ferns, though…
@soulfilcher1335 25 днів тому
That "electric eel" (Electrophorus electricus) lives in freshwater so it would not "zap" any larvae in the ocean.
@JungleJargon 24 дні тому
I have a good story for you about electric eels... the ones that live in the Amazon River and tributaries. They are traditionally called Puraque. I am from the village of "Puraque" which is a misnomer. The Americans named the place Puraquequara, which was supposed to mean, *"place of the electric eel."* It should have been *"Por aqui quara",* which is understandable if you speak fluent Portuguese. So the name is a place where I am from is mistakenly called "Puraque" for short. Early on, the native nationals began calling the eel, Puraque since it was broadcasted on TV early on. I wish it had been named correctly since the initials would have been PAQ instead of PQQ. PAQ would have been so much better.
@nariu7times328 24 дні тому
kudos to the writing on this episode, HYSERICAL
@jonsims4099 25 днів тому
Dr worm been real quiet since this dropped
@guard13007 25 днів тому
I'm more surprised to learn that people generally don't know that horizontal gene transfer happens naturally than I am to learn any of the specific details in here. I've heard about it so many times over the past decade that I thought it had become somewhat common knowledge. o.O
@astk5214 25 днів тому
I am a sturgeon! I am a sturgeon 😬😮😬😮
@michael--a--sometimes 25 днів тому
Sorry to hear about your plant 😢
@mosquitobight 24 дні тому
When I read the title and saw the thumbnail I thought there was some Douglas Adams stuff going on here.
@gso619 17 днів тому
I'm picking up "horizontal gene transfer" as a euphamism.
@bruhbruh3080 24 дні тому
you guys should put the topic in the title. like ‘i’m a genetic engineer, i’m also a fish - horizontal gene transfer’
@josephdonais4778 25 днів тому
Hello Mr Limpet!
@OLBICHL 24 дні тому
could beneficial symbiosis or more specific mutualism be categorized as a form of (active/direct) horizontal gene transfer? if so then our existence is a product of it :O
@catatonicbug7522 19 днів тому
Spider goat, spider goat... Does whatever a spider goat does...
@JR13751 25 днів тому
Could viruses be vectors for horizontal gene transfer in multicellular organisms?
@tonytins 25 днів тому
Who knew Frankenstein was actually onto something.
@AKindOfDog 23 дні тому
I would absolutely read Frankenstein 2: this time it’s fish
@RachelsSweetie 25 днів тому
Thanks for reminding to water my houseplants.
@lynnobrien1748 24 дні тому
I think it was probably a joke but I would definitely read that novel
@mathnerd97 25 днів тому
Horizontal Gene Transfer is my new euphemism
@enriquehartmann8642 23 дні тому
Wow!