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TWiEVO 92: There's algae in the jar

This Week in Evolution

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The Evolution of Microalgae

The advantage here is a really rapid generation time. When you're doing experimental evolution, you want to have replicates. So can you do this repeatedly? A lot of these microorganisms, you can freeze them down in the middle of your sort of evolutionary course. And then, you know, if they're frozen down, you can then thaw them out later, compete them against their like great, great granddaughters,. et cetera.

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