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They have a few double helixes. The big animated one is very wrong. the one in their logo and the one down the page somewhat have the right chirality and almost the right number of base pairs per turn (~8, which is still a bit low).

Sloppy terminology. Meant to refer to the complete absence of minor and major grooves. Then looked on line and was scared to see how many other sites have a perfect twist with no major/minor differentiation.

Wait, this isn’t a parody written for The Onion 🧅 ??

if you look where all the other fungi are, maybe everyone except vertebrate zoologists are actually mycologists

It feels like when a kid proudly shows his mistakes during potty training.

Diogenes with his plucked chicken was a better taxonomist.

I think I started using PHYLIP when Goodfellas was still in theaters.

Probably should've put air quotes on "cured". To anyone that is joke-averse, this was me being facetious; I don't actually believe that worm paste cures covid.

The hippos of the botanical world

Shame, that could've been a great new vegan source of protein

Generous to assume it used the DNA data at all.

good catch!

Carbon got Macaques confused with Macaws. Common mistake.

oh boy

Plants don't have vertrebrae, so this is pretty accurate.

Same, LOL. Me: I'LL SHOW THEM ALL AND FIND THE PROPER ROOT. Narrator: He did not.

How do they feel no shame or embarrassment for releasing worthless products? How do these people have careers? Rigor is a good thing and a new technology is actually a perfect opportunity to be more rigorous and make better products. This is so dumb

If you stop reading after "human," you can go on with your life feeling pretty good about progress

what in the whole entire tarnation

macaques and pigs speak the same language

Hilarious.

... It's not too early to start day drinking, is it? I mean, these guys obviously are ...

the authors couldn't even correctly cherry-pick the things the model did right: the tree does not have a "primates" clade

Also really? We’re doing “hugging face?” Invoking the genetically engineered, parasitoid bioweapon from the sci-fi horror movie Alien? This does not inspire confidence about their stated goals and motives.

Huh... this WOULD provide a justification for why kooks keep trying to treat covid and other viruses with the antiparasitic ivermectin

Primates being paraphetic with respect to (dog + pig + cow) is Peters levels of bad phylogeny. I'll stick to my carefully constructed morphological matrix I think

Maize and Rice both split off from Flies surprisingly recently

Big if true.