What Happens If You Fuse All Your Chromosomes? | SciShow News

Two separate groups of biologists reported fusing entire sets of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomes together, and surprisingly, the actual number of chromosomes might not be as important as we thought.

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[whatthefunction]

Its almost like biology has randomly made changes and kept what randomly works.

[Gulgathydra]

Yeah, you could fuse all our chromosomes together, but what about the economic impact?

The '23 and me' company would have to change their name (I'm thinking 'One and Done Inc.'). That rebranding could affect their stock pricing, and who's going to cover that shortfall? Who?

[Master_Therion]

Those poor yeast cells, having their chromosomes fused. They must be so... confused.

[Nepycros]

It would've been nice to have mentioned how observed chromosome fusion isn't a purely laboratory-influenced phenomenon. We already have evidence that chromosome fusion happens in nature: Human Chromosome Pair #2 is a combination of two prior unique chromosomes.

[DarkParadeHF]

Did this change the rate of aging? Or did it just make replication more energy intensive?

[brandonkeffer]

So, are you telling me we have WinZip for chromosomes now?

[maracachucho]

It's like turning your spaghetti into a single super spaghetti.

[TwitchyTopHat]

So this is what homeworld thinks of fusion...

[sodalitia]

Lets fuse 2 out of 24 pairs of chromosomes in chimpanzee, so that they end up having 23 pairs and lest get ourselves a humanzee finally made.

[ruawhitepaw]

Other apes have 24 chromosome pairs. Somewhere in the evolution of humans, two of them fused. And it worked just fine, just naturally, without all the fiddly CRISPR stuff they do in labs.

[sebastianelytron]

"Some" will become a "few" so wouldn't they become Chromofews? Or should that be Chromofuse since we're fusing them?😂

[kraakenhex]

"With just those two words, you probably already know what I'm talking about!"

It helps that it's literally in the title of the video.

[magnustherad]

ill tell you what happens...

chinchin is what happens.

[gravijta]

If only scientists could fuse chicken chromosomes to my own. I'd be the tastiest clucker ever!

[nicholasheimann]

This would be disastrous for genetic diversity among offspring. How do you shuffle a deck with only one card?

[CuriosityCulture]

Now here's a question I haven't asked myself yet haha

[aphilip]

Anyone seen the meme where there's a kid with special needs is happy beacause he got 47/46 on a chromosome test

[liana-gao]

*This was really cool to learn about🙌🏼*

[TitoTheThird]

Of the four members of the great apes (orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans), the first three members have 24 pairs, while we have 23 pairs. Somewhere in our past, a mutation occurred, fusing two chromosomes, so modern man ended up with 23. (Chromosome # 2 is the fused one.) As one cannot have a gradual decrease of 23.9 pairs, then 23.7, and so on, then this was an abrupt LEAP of a mutation. Must have had an evolutionary advantage since we are still around.

[ProfessorPolitics]

I wonder if the reason that the daughter cells couldn't maintain it (and were out-competed) is that it takes a lot of energy to maintain one thing in the kind of perfect arrangement it would take to keep everything ok?