{"id":230577,"date":"2024-06-10T19:05:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/a-surprisingly-quick-enzyme-could-shift-our-understanding-of-evolution\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:17:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:17:26","slug":"a-surprisingly-quick-enzyme-could-shift-our-understanding-of-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/a-surprisingly-quick-enzyme-could-shift-our-understanding-of-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"A surprisingly quick enzyme could shift our understanding of evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"F0FBHN Spiral strands of DNA on the dark background\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/06152536\/SEI_207340718.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2434645\" data-caption=\"An enzyme that helps copy DNA strands like these may be most accurate when working quickly\" data-credit=\"Alexey Kotelnikov \/ Alamy Stock Photo\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">An enzyme that helps copy DNA strands like these may be most accurate when working quickly<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Alexey Kotelnikov \/ Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>By trying to speed up, molecular processes can become more reliable \u2013 a phenomenon that may have helped life evolve from relatively simple chemicals. Understanding how speed plays a role in cellular replication could add a crucial variable to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/definition\/evolution\/\">Charles Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution<\/a>, in which natural selection drives reproductive success.<\/p>\n<p>The finding comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.ucl.ac.uk\/97548-kabir-husain\">Kabir Husain<\/a> at University College London, <a href=\"https:\/\/jfi.uchicago.edu\/people\/profile\/riccardo-ravasio\/\">Riccardo Ravasio<\/a> at the University of Chicago and their colleagues, who were frustrated by an experiment\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2433852-a-surprisingly-quick-enzyme-could-shift-our-understanding-of-evolution\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] An enzyme that helps copy DNA strands like these may be most accurate when working quickly Alexey Kotelnikov \/ Alamy Stock Photo By trying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}