But I still don’t understand. Is it basically a mass of cancerous dog cells that just keep spreading around endlessly, nearly unchanged in the last ten thousand years? If so, can it even be considered a life form? Or a form of life at all?
The cancer cells are genetic clones of some dog’s cancer from 11000 years ago. Yes, they’re alive similarly to how your and my cells are alive. The cells themselves live, die and reproduce asexually. I’d say they constitute life forms, but I’m no biologist.
Damn, that was an interesting read before sleep.
But I still don’t understand. Is it basically a mass of cancerous dog cells that just keep spreading around endlessly, nearly unchanged in the last ten thousand years? If so, can it even be considered a life form? Or a form of life at all?
The cancer cells are genetic clones of some dog’s cancer from 11000 years ago. Yes, they’re alive similarly to how your and my cells are alive. The cells themselves live, die and reproduce asexually. I’d say they constitute life forms, but I’m no biologist.
How much have we evolved in the last 10,000 years?