What Darwin Won't Tell You About Evolution - With Jonathan Pettitt
The Royal Institution via YouTube
Overview
Syllabus
Intro and complexity in the visual system
Population genetics
What is genetic drift?
Where non-coding DNA came from
Self-splicing introns
How mechanism that saved eukaryotes
What C. elegans can teach us about genetics
How C. elegans translate DNA differently
Why trans-splicing is important
Using trans-splicing as a drug target
Constructive neutral evolution
Taught by
The Royal Institution