THE KRAKEN WAKES
In April last year, researchers found octopuses — and some of their cuttlefish and squid cousins — regularly edit their RNA.
This sets them apart from the rest of the animal world.
RNA, like DNA, records genetic code. But where DNA is a double-stranded molecule, RNA consists of just one strand. Its role within our body is to transmit genetic information to trigger the production of proteins.
But some scientists feel RNA may have been the original DNA, acting as the permanent storehouse of genetic code among Earth’s earliest organisms.
When it comes to cephalopods like the common squid, researchers have found that up to 60 percent of the RNA in its nervous system had been edited after it was programmed by DNA. These changes adapted its brain to shifting temperatures in its ocean habitat.
Last year, it was discovered two species of octopus and one of cuttlefish does the same thing — routinely.
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