great grandaddy bur oak

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• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dendrologists: [heavy breathing]

  In all seriousness, isn’t it pretty unlikely that alien life could interbreed with terran life even if they also used DNA with the same bases?

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  • ajmaxwell@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We won’t know until we try

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Scientist 1: “How are things coming along with our test subjects?”

      Scientist 2: “I don’t know, it’s about time to check back in with them.”

      Scientist 2: “Hey, Mike? How’s it going?”

      Mike: “Not too bad. There have been some challenges, but I think we got a few things worked out.”

      Scientist 2: “Oh…my. was that it’s–”

      Mike: “No, I don’t think so, but it seems like it was mutually enjoyable, though, so write that down.”

      [Trilling noises in the background]

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  • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Incredibly. Even very closely related organisms can have a hard time breeding

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    • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I know I’m having a hard time breeding

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s extremely unlikely that their DNA has the same translation semantics into proteins.

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    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not unless there is a common ancestor, which is theoretically possible. But yeah, extremely unlikely.

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  • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well it seems safe to say it’s at least as unlikely as a terran species being able to breed with some randomly selected other terran species.

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Even when possible, it’s often inadvisable as we learned from the monkapotamus in Drew Carey’s famous documentary: youtu.be/BLbJC7LeC8E

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Some plant aliens land and discover the air itself gets them pregnant from all the pollen freely flying around from such numerous and primitive plant life. Terra is the plant equivalent of an unbridled sex planet.

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  • DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve got a relevant SMBC for that

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• Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you like the idea of alien plant based fiction check out Semiosis by Sue Burke. Recommend going in blind

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  • Barrymore@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or the Infected trilogy by Scott Sigler

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    • Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ooh, I’ll add it to the list

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• starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Xenophytophilia is my favorite word in the English language

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What would happen if I crossbred with citrus? 🤔

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  • the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I once had a short-lived romance with a Hanks Hard Lemonade

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Doctors hate this one simple trick

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• blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Serious question: I know many oaks can crossbreed with each other, but do oaks actually crossbreed with non-oaks?

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  • huf@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    they can apparently even crossbreed with professors!

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  then they will try to domesticate us. I’ve read the literature

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• Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Oak go bur

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• Phoenix3875@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How do you know if this hasn’t happened already?

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