I’m not a biologist myself, so this explanation might be full of errors, but the gist of it is:
A dog got cancer. Cancer tissue is a part of your body with the same genetic information, just growing uncontrollably, right? Well, one of the cancer cells got separated and somehow learnt to survive on its own, reproducing asexually and started a lineage of a new single-cell organism that still exists to this day.
This single-cell organism has the same DNA as the dog. Genetically speaking it is a dog.
Cancer tissue is a part of your body with the same genetic information, just growing uncontrollably, right?
I have no idea. Don’t ask me to verify this stuff!
one of the cancer cells got separated and somehow learnt to survive on its own, reproducing asexually and started a lineage of a new single-cell organism that still exists to this day.
This single-cell organism has the same DNA as the dog. Genetically speaking it is a dog.
I’ll settle for some unlikely and interesting bits out of context, such as the existence of single-cell dogs.
Single cell what now?!
I’m not a biologist myself, so this explanation might be full of errors, but the gist of it is:
A dog got cancer. Cancer tissue is a part of your body with the same genetic information, just growing uncontrollably, right? Well, one of the cancer cells got separated and somehow learnt to survive on its own, reproducing asexually and started a lineage of a new single-cell organism that still exists to this day.
This single-cell organism has the same DNA as the dog. Genetically speaking it is a dog.
I have no idea. Don’t ask me to verify this stuff!
I regret asking!