Chicken with genetic defect - r/interestingasfuck

r/interestingasfuck • u/XyRow666 • Jul 21 '21

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Defect or Evolution??

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u/NJRMayo Jul 21 '21

This! We've got a dinosaur thing happening here

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u/Corcaioch Jul 21 '21

It's already a dinosaur.

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u/MJMurcott Jul 21 '21

It may be dinosaur genes which had been deactivated in normal chickens being reactivated in this one.

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u/El_James_O Jul 21 '21

Chicken returns to dinosaur.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '21

Reject chicken

Return to dinosaur

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u/Sea-Salt Jul 21 '21

Open the door

Get on the floor

Everybody return to dinosaur

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u/gsomething Jul 21 '21

That's not the beginning of the end, that's a return to yourself, a return to Dinosaur

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u/TLG_BE Jul 21 '21 edited Jul 21 '21

Haha, I find it unlikely many therapod dinosaurs had feet for hands

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u/MJMurcott Jul 21 '21

Early ancestors might https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuanhanosaurus

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u/TLG_BE Jul 21 '21

That's actually pretty interesting, I hadn't even heard of Xuanghanosaurus before. However

Later paleontologists have not agreed with Dong's original assessment. They think this dinosaur walked on its hind legs as other theropods did, pronation of the lower arm being impossible.

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u/MJMurcott Jul 21 '21

There are a lot of gaps in our knowledge on dinosaurs, much of what we "know" about dinosaurs is little more than educated guesswork.

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u/TLG_BE Jul 21 '21 edited Jul 21 '21

Lol, mate I know. Believe me. I read up on new stuff related to them pretty much every day. We know they didn't just randomly have feet where there hands were though. That's not educated guesswork

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u/crossdrubicon Jul 21 '21 edited Jul 21 '21

We’re not actually sure whether dinosaurs even existed, or if the fossils were planted by the devil to make us doubt the bible. Remember, evolution is just a theory!

/s

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u/metalbox69 Jul 21 '21

All its genes are dinosaur genes

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u/TER0KN0R Jul 21 '21

Next breed that with a dog, then we will have the next jurassic park dinosaur

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u/Ac4sent Jul 21 '21

Didn't you mean...jurassic bark?

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u/Glorious_Jo Jul 21 '21

If iiiit, taaaakes foreverrrrrr, I will wait for youuuu

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u/badchriss Jul 21 '21

Great, now I have to walk in the sunshine, to forget this episode.

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u/SpawnPointillist Jul 21 '21

Jurassic cluck!

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u/NJRMayo Jul 21 '21

Yesssss

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u/DistancingSocially Jul 21 '21

This cracked me up more than it should. Ty

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u/99999999999999999989 Jul 21 '21

Using a comment like this not as a purposeful pun is very shell-fish of you.

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u/missmuninn Jul 21 '21

Yes!

But in all honesty what if it is just a recessive gene? like how some people have the Neanderthal recessive gene come out every so often, but this is just the same thing? Is that even possible? They say when baby chicks are in the egg they have teeth and stuff like the dinosaurs dead or ridges along their beaks so is it possible that it could be like just a recessive gene? Oh God I’m over thinking possibly just bad breeding. Lol

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u/The_Dying_Gaul323bc Jul 21 '21

Those little “teeth “ you refer too are not a recessive gene necessarily, they are hardened calcifications that help the chick break out of the shell, and once they do so, those “teeth” dissolve rapidly.

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u/texasrigger Jul 21 '21

The "egg tooth" is basically a little horn at the tip of the beak. Not really what we picture when we think teeth. There is a mutation where chicks will develop crocodile like teeth but the mutation also causes a host of other deformities and they don't survive until hatching.

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u/Vindepomarus Jul 21 '21

No it's a alot more complicated than that. Blue eyes is a recessive gene (and even then I'm greatly simplifying things), so we should expect four legged chickens about as often as we get blue eyed people. This more likely to be an epigenetic malfunction, where the genes for feet are turned on in cells where they should be turned off.

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u/NJRMayo Jul 21 '21

Could be! I wouldn't be surprised!

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u/boredsomadereddit Jul 21 '21

I don't think that this would be recessive or dominant per se. Looks like manglement of the homeobox genes so extra legs and not unusual legs. Looks like a this mutation is from the translocation of hox/homeobox gene(s) that code for legs. So it may not have inherited it: it may be the first in its lineage. No idea if its offspring could have this too.

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u/Call_Me_Kyle Jul 21 '21

CRISPER! We should make more tiny raptors! Rat predators to compete with wild cat populations.

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u/Haldebrandt Jul 21 '21 edited Jul 21 '21

Yes!

But in all honesty what if it is just a recessive gene? like how some people have the Neanderthal recessive gene come out every so often, but this is just the same thing?

This is not a thing.

There is no "the neanderthal gene." Humans outside of Africa have about 1-4% neanderthal DNA, remnants from mixing when they were still around. And that has nothing to do with dominant or recessive genes, which are an entirely different matter.