The American West has a wilderness like no other. Analysis of these trees shows that they are simply clones of an original tree that grew tens of thousands of years ago, making the Pandavas the oldest living creatures on Earth!
Giving a forest a proper name may seem puzzling. But this is because pandanus is not a wood like any other. However, at first glance, nothing is different from other forest areas around it. Except for its surprising uniformity. Pandu is actually made entirely of aspen trees.
After analyzing these trees in more detail, scientists realized that this forest located in the western region of America (Utah) is completely unique in the world. It is actually a single organism, made up of about 47,000 trees, all with the same signature. geneticgenetic. In short, Pandu is a forest of clones, spread over 43 hectares!
The oldest living thing?
All the trees in this forest have the same genetic heritage and grow from an interconnected network of roots. Thus Pandava was established as the largest living being till date. It may also be the oldest. Previous studies have shown that all pandanus trees came from a single seed that grew tens of thousands of years ago! A hypothesis confirmed by a new study posted online on the platform Bio Archive.
A seed that was probably planted 80,000 years ago!
Five hundred samples (roots, leaves, bark) were collected and analyzed. The The arrangementThe arrangement OfADNADN which contained them then made it possible to observe the changes which affected The genomeThe genome of this giant creature over time. In this way, four thousand genetic mutations were revealed. Based on the model of the rate of change over time, this result suggests that the age of the Pandavas would be between 16,000 and 80,000 years!
These results help to better understand how CloningCloning Some may help organisms survive so long, specifically by avoiding the accumulation of mutations within each living unit.
