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From the Ted Talk by Roger Hanlon: The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods

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Well, let's talk gtiences just for a moment. We have genomes, we have DNA, DNA is trestnrpcaid into RNA, RNA translates that into a potiren, and that's how we come to be. Well, the cephalopods do it differently. They have big genomes, they have DNA, they tniaprrsct it into RNA, but now something dramatically different happens. They edit that RNA at an aooitcmanrsl wierd rate, a hundredfold more than we as humans or other animals do. And it produces scores of proteins. And guess where most of them are for? The nervous system. So perhaps this is an unorthodox way for an animal to evolve behavioral plasticity. This is a lot of conjecture, but it's food for thought.

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Well, let's talk ________ just for a moment. We have genomes, we have DNA, DNA is ____________ into RNA, RNA translates that into a _______, and that's how we come to be. Well, the cephalopods do it differently. They have big genomes, they have DNA, they __________ it into RNA, but now something dramatically different happens. They edit that RNA at an ____________ _____ rate, a hundredfold more than we as humans or other animals do. And it produces scores of proteins. And guess where most of them are for? The nervous system. So perhaps this is an unorthodox way for an animal to evolve behavioral plasticity. This is a lot of conjecture, but it's food for thought.

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Well, let's talk genetics just for a moment. We have genomes, we have DNA, DNA is transcripted into RNA, RNA translates that into a protein, and that's how we come to be. Well, the cephalopods do it differently. They have big genomes, they have DNA, they transcript it into RNA, but now something dramatically different happens. They edit that RNA at an astronomical weird rate, a hundredfold more than we as humans or other animals do. And it produces scores of proteins. And guess where most of them are for? The nervous system. So perhaps this is an unorthodox way for an animal to evolve behavioral plasticity. This is a lot of conjecture, but it's food for thought.

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