What's Weird About This Tiger
Notice anything weird about this tiger? Its stripes are way darker than a typical tiger!
That’s because of a mutation that we’re seeing a LOT of now because of what scientists call the “bottleneck effect”...
While this mutation doesn’t seem to hurt the tigers, it could have been a harmful genetic disease…
For the tigers, scientists moved in healthy tigers from other areas… but for other animals, they’re trying gene editing…
If you wanna know how that works, subscribe!
#shorts #science #geneediting #tigers #tech
That’s because of a mutation that we’re seeing a LOT of now because of what scientists call the “bottleneck effect”...
While this mutation doesn’t seem to hurt the tigers, it could have been a harmful genetic disease…
For the tigers, scientists moved in healthy tigers from other areas… but for other animals, they’re trying gene editing…
If you wanna know how that works, subscribe!
#shorts #science #geneediting #tigers #tech
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