Can that work? Radiation damages genes in unpredictable ways because its wavelength is smaller than the dna itself, right? How might that work for something more complex than fungi?

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

We're probably more simple than fungi. Jokes aside we're very complex creatures but each cell of ours is just so much more simple or equal in complexity to a mold. They're between 25% to 50% shared genome with us.

Tbh all life on earth is so similar to each other one could say we're all the same exact organism just warped in a million different ways with extreme degrees of variance

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah i've been thinking this for a long time; All life on Earth is so ridiculously similar, it really shows how much code was reused and how much of a common platform there is.