How oskar the gene invented sex
Podcast: Clear+Vivid with Alan AldaPublished On: Tue Dec 15 2020
Description: A leading scientist who studies how genes make bodies, Cassandra Extavour almost became a musician and still sings professionally. She works with an extraordinary insect gene called oskar. Hundreds of millions of years ago oskar borrowed a fragment of a bacterial DNA that made sexual reproduction possible in the vast majority of animals– including you, me, and scientists who sing.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid
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