Algae with three sexes that mate in pairs identified in Japanese river (2021)
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Re: Algae with three sexes that mate in pairs identified in Japanese river (2021)
#2Piers Anthony, Cluster series, Spicans.
Some people say fact is stranger than fiction, but art and life have such parallels.
Re: Algae with three sexes that mate in pairs identified in Japanese river (2021)
#3There's also fungi with a fuck ton of genders, excuse the pun.
Re: Algae with three sexes that mate in pairs identified in Japanese river (2021)
#4Schizophyllum commune, known as the splitgill mushroom, has over 23,000 sexes. Two individuals are sexually compatible based on genes at two sites in their genome. If a pair has matching genes at either location, the pair is not sexually compatible.
Re: Algae with three sexes that mate in pairs identified in Japanese river (2021)
#5"each sex can enter fertile pairings with 22,960 others"
Imagine its Tinder profile :)
Re: Algae with three sexes that mate in pairs identified in Japanese river (2021)
#6"each sex can enter fertile pairings with 22,960 others" Imagine its Tinder profile :)
I can't get past the mental visualisation of the gender drop-down list on the registration. Or the "seeking" list.
Re: Algae with three sexes that mate in pairs identified in Japanese river (2021)
#7"each sex can enter fertile pairings with 22,960 others" Imagine its Tinder profile :)
I can't get past the mental visualisation of the gender drop-down list on the registration. Or the "seeking" list.
A list would only work if selection is limited. A better UI decision would either be a “sex cloud” akin to a word cloud, or the bubble UI that Apple Music uses to identify your preferred genres.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't get past the mental visualisation of the gender drop-down list on the registration. Or the "seeking" list.
A list would only work if selection is limited. A better UI decision would either be a “sex cloud” akin to a word cloud, or the bubble UI that Apple Music uses to identify your preferred genres.
To be a success you'd need to create some kind of yubikey specifically for DNA sequences.
Hell I'd imagine you'd need something like that just to meet people at a bar.
Re: Algae with three sexes that mate in pairs identified in Japanese river (2021)
#9Schizophyllum commune, known as the splitgill mushroom, has over 23,000 sexes. Two individuals are sexually compatible based on genes at two sites in their genome. If a pair has matching genes at either location, the pair is not sexually compatible.
Is there any possibility that humans could be similar given that not every couple can have children naturally?
Re: Algae with three sexes that mate in pairs identified in Japanese river (2021)
#10So those aren't a third sex, it's individuals with both male and female reproductive cells.