Mutational Meltdown
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Asexual reproduction has its advantages, but organisms that depend too much on it also face potential extinction. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss mutational meltdown and Muller's ratchet.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Amber Reffett and I'm her gorgeous sister, Lacey Lamar. |
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| 0:34.3 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 0:44.5 | Hey you, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:46.6 | My name is Robert Lam and I'm Joe McCormick and today we're going to be talking about |
| 0:51.6 | a concept in the realm of genetics and reproduction. |
| 0:57.6 | A concept known as mutational meltdown, very enticing name. |
| 1:03.0 | Rob, I understand you became interested in mutational meltdown earlier this week. |
| 1:08.6 | What got you going on this? |
| 1:10.0 | Well, it actually didn't have anything to do directly with any melt movies we might |
| 1:15.0 | have been talking about on Weird House Cinema. |
| 1:17.5 | I think it was on a walk with my family and I said, hey, I think we're going to need |
| 1:22.2 | an episode for Thursday, which we do it on. |
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