Our bad! Electric eels are freshwater fish, and do not live in the ocean. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out. Looks like all of our ocean-based jokes were not very… pacific… to electric eels.

@lysandroabelcher2592

Ай бұрын

I've just opened to comment that. I'm glad many others realised it before. Now what about thunderstorms? Aren't they more and more common in nowadays oceans, thanks to climate change? Food 4 thought...

@taimunozhan

Ай бұрын

Nice to sea a correction about that

@Christian-lh7ux

Ай бұрын

Me too, I couldn't cope with that false fact but you guys @SciShow are 1st accurate nerds (like me🫣) and 2nd you know your audience 😂 Thank you for being meticulous and saving me from having to think that electric eels are freshwater fish for myself all day long or even longer and maybe teaching others! 😅 ❤️

@donbailey831

Ай бұрын

I was literally just getting ready to comment on that

@randalalansmith9883

Ай бұрын

I do NOT carry oats.

Fun fact: technically, humans (and all other vertebrate land animals) are a very specialized type of lobe-finned fish :P By that reasoning, "I'm a genetic engineer. I'm also a fish," could be a scientist accurately describing themself in a silly way.

@lordbalthosadinferni4384

Ай бұрын

I thought exactly this Edit: so is an icththyologist a fish that studies fish in the same way a neurologist is a brain studying a brain and a physicist is particles studying particles and a chemist is chemicals studying chemicals?

@SherlockHolmes-rl1lg

Ай бұрын

@@lordbalthosadinferni4384 mind blown

@Leyrann

Ай бұрын

This is what I expected the video to be about. But the actual topic was very interesting too, so I'm not complaining.

@jonahs92

Ай бұрын

That's actually exactly what I expected this video to be about lol

@MaryAnnNytowl

Ай бұрын

I'm very glad I wasn't the only one to immediately think this and expect the video to be about it, instead of eels and... zebrafish. 😂

"acquired traits aren't heritable" -Bio 101 teacher "WELL ACTUALLY" -Bio 501 teacher

@DawnDavidson

Ай бұрын

I know, right? As someone with a Genetics degree from 1984, the modern era of genetics and epigenetics just blows my mind.

His credentials seem fishy

@TheOneTrueGesta

Ай бұрын

Badum tisss

@sandrastreifel6452

Ай бұрын

And his presentations are slimy!

@maximilian672

Ай бұрын

I laughed way too hard at this 😂

@Pim3211

Ай бұрын

they don't quite belong in this academic pond

@North_West1

Ай бұрын

Stinks.

"When two plants really love each other.. they give each other a *special hug* " 😉

@michaelteegarden4116

Ай бұрын

"We call it the Horizontal Gene Transfer. Because it's done horizontally, you see."

@erikjohnson9223

Ай бұрын

If one of those plants is a parasite like dodder, this has to be a case of "struggle snuggle." I doubt the host reciprocates the "affection" (lust/gluttony?).

@nickkorkodylas5005

Ай бұрын

Ayo?

@Resetium

20 күн бұрын

​@@erikjohnson9223"struggle snuggle" is a new one for me

I would read Frankenstein 2: Eelectric Boogaloo.

@eliospokefan1386

Ай бұрын

HAHAHAHA banger comment

@lindaseel9986

Ай бұрын

That would take me higher! 😂

@Zeuseus6609

Ай бұрын

Damn. Beaten to the joke by 9 hours lol

@biohazard724

Ай бұрын

The Island of Dr. Moray

"Even your overwatered house plants" As someone who works in the Plant Care industry, my voice starts to fade at the end of a busy day from how much I tell people they overwater their plants. I thank you for casually throwing that out.

@Psilomuscimol

Ай бұрын

I let the first inch of soil dry completely. For bigger pots

@Psilomuscimol

Ай бұрын

My kratom tree would hate if I drowned it. And they're too expensive to risk it.

@themanhimself3

Ай бұрын

​@@Psilomuscimolis growing your own worth it? I never considered getting my own tree.

@Psilomuscimol

Ай бұрын

@themanhimself3 I don't think so. Especially if you live anywhere in the US that isn't Florida. Or have a greenhouse

@Psilomuscimol

Ай бұрын

@themanhimself3 because it grows slow and will drop its leaves if it drops below 60 Fahrenheit. So when it gets any colder than 60 I bring it inside. It will be fine here once it's big enough to go in the ground

"When two plants really love each other.. they give each other a special hug" but really, since it is grafting we are talking about "When two plants really love each other.. they amputate one of their arms and sow it onto the other plant".

@DawnDavidson

Ай бұрын

That got dark really fast … 😂

@connecticutaggie

Ай бұрын

@@DawnDavidson I didn't start it.

I love the longer, more detailed, more technical style and studio of these new videos. I started off in middle school watching scishow, now I’m a developmental biologist who uses genetics engineering and molecular biology tools to study the evolution of face bones.

@tranquility1967

Ай бұрын

And you are still watching scishow! And that's amazing and shows that you are still open to learning. 🤩🤩

@whoisincornell

Ай бұрын

😊

@sharronhankins7722

Ай бұрын

Awesome 🥰🥰🥰

NDSU spliced the antifreeze gene from fish into corn plants to GM a corn that can survive frost in the spring. Not sure if they ever made a variety that is planted commercially, but it is very interesting that they succeeded

@Abdega

Ай бұрын

I think they also did something like that for tomatoes

@violettracey

Ай бұрын

Awesome!

@gorgha3988

Ай бұрын

If they can do this with plants, I wonder if they could eventually do it with humans to make cryogenics viable.

@Abdega

Ай бұрын

@@gorgha3988 I suggest they try it with hamsters first since they seemed to have some small successes with them, along with thawing them out with microwaves

@violettracey

Ай бұрын

@@gorgha3988 That is an interesting idea!

The phrase “Love Puddle” certainly conjures an image

@jl7655

Ай бұрын

So does horizontal gene transfer

Horizontal gene transfer sounds like a euphemism

My overwatered houseplant?! I feel personally attacked by this …

@North_West1

Ай бұрын

My neglected house plant will balance your out.

@kellydalstok8900

Ай бұрын

Too much love will kill it in the end. (Paraphrased from Queen)

I appreciate the use of “open mouth kissing”. Makes it more kid friendly

@trishapellis

Ай бұрын

Just some bacteria kissing their homies.

@kashiichan

Ай бұрын

What makes it more "kid friendly"? /gen

@trishapellis

Ай бұрын

@@kashiichan If you have to ask, I need to wonder how old you are. Think about things that are not kid friendly. Think about the body parts, the orifices, and how they can be put together. If you've been told about the birds and the bees, you should be able to figure it out.

@kashiichan

Ай бұрын

@@trishapellis I asked because I don't know what OP is comparing "open mouth kissing" *to*. Implying I'm a child because I asked for clarification is both patronising and unnecessary. Do better.

I think it's less Frankenstein and more Dr. Moreau in those electric eel love puddles

@FatElvis1

Ай бұрын

Did you mean Dr. Moray? (I know it's not an electric eel b but it is an eel)

This process of horizontal gene transfer is actually how Panaeolus Cyanescens aka Blue Meanies, and its similar species obtained the ability to synthesize psilocybin and psilocin, from psilocybe cubensis and others.

@violettracey

Ай бұрын

Cool!

@DawnDavidson

Ай бұрын

Woot! 💙 🍄‍🟫

@Tinyflydeposit

Ай бұрын

It's also how I got pregnant.

I couldn't help but think of that "Batman vs. The Penguin" skit where Batman screams, "Dr. Fishy, noooo!"

Most gene transfers: make me better at surviving the elements Electric eels: Make me a goddamn wizard

When you say the offspring of the tobacco plant, which offspring (since each graft will have its own fruit and thus offspring)? Grafting is more like transplantation or cloning than hugging. It takes a piece from one plant and attaches it to a different plant from a compatible species. In the end you don't end up with a "hybrid" plant but rather to plants that are sown together. The cells and flowers from one part are like the plant it came from. If you graft a Bing Cherry and a Red Haven Peach onto a Plum tree (yes, you can do that) then it will produce Bing Cherries and Red Haven Peaches, not a hybrid between the two each part is a clone of the original pant it came from.

@marcotedesco8954

Ай бұрын

Graft chimaeras are a thing! The most famous is probably + Laburnocytisus 'Adamii', an ornamental small tree that bears a mixture of branches and flowers like one or the other parent species AND with intermediate characters! From the wording in the video though I think the tobacco grafts grew true to type (is that the term?) as you described, but with evidence of having received genetic input from the rootstock.

@connecticutaggie

Ай бұрын

@@marcotedesco8954 Cool graft chimeras sound interesting. I wonder how the genes migrate within the plans. In the cases you are talking about, where does the chimeric appear? Is it on the original grafted stock or on the root stock. Also, I do like your term "true to type", kind of a spin off of "true to seed".

@b.a.erlebacher1139

Ай бұрын

​@@connecticutaggie Graft chimeras occur when a bud grows at the graft junction, containing cells from both participants in the graft. The resulting branch is a weird mixture of tissues from both. The video had an image of one but it went by fast. Graft chimeras are pretty rare in normal grafting, but I suppose you could make them on purpose in tissue culture.

Hugo: "No look! I've been practicing. I made a pigeon-rat!"

I am a human. I am also a nematode

@joanhoffman3702

Ай бұрын

You’re also 40% fungus, just like other humans. 😂😂😂

@sharronhankins7722

Ай бұрын

😂😂🥰🥰

I love the way she delivers the punch lines! Perfect sense of humour!

So fascinating! Nature surprises us! Just like our crew getting on camera beavers, who are not only beavers but also nature's engineers!

Mary Shelley was definitely on to something. Considering lighting more than likely needed for the 'primordial soup' to really boil just as another facet to creating life. But it was widely understood back then already that lightning and life had connections. And life extension and creation of new life were a fad back then, and electricity and modern surgery techiques were the new inventions science fiction could extrapolate. And she brilliantly combined them creating a timeless masterpiece riddled with philosophy and moral issues while being a fun and fairly simple read.

@rosalie.e.morgan

Ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure lighting isn't actually used to bring Frankenstein's monster to life in the book, at least not explicitly. It has been a very long time since I read it, but I think that's one of the many things added later that stuck for almost all future versions.

@slawomirlachowski981

Ай бұрын

​@@rosalie.e.morgan I actually had to reread beginning of Chapter 5, where monster awakens. There is no lengthy description of the exact process that was used to bring him to life, just "I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet". World "spark" seems to be used metaphorically. In Chapter 2 Victor Frankenstein sees tree that is destroyed by lightning. This event turns his interests to natural philosophy. But he must be perfectly aware of destructive nature of powerful electrostatic discharges by then. 1931 movie with Boris Karloff contains famous "It's Alive!" scene, where monster is brought to life during thunderstorm: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y6WCx6mMesS3abQ.html I found an article that speculates about Mary Shelley's knowledge about experiments that used electricity to reanimate corpses: www.insidescience.org/news/science-made-frankenstein

Shoot. I was really hoping we'd figured out how to turn a person into a fish. I really, really want to be able to breathe underwater. It's the superpower I wish I had. Just call me Mrs. Limpet. 😁🤣

@ElijahAllenEpsilon

Ай бұрын

I understood this reference

@DawnDavidson

Ай бұрын

@@ElijahAllenEpsilonme too! 😂

Pets cat, gets static shock from the fur, starts purring -- gene transfer complete

@sharronhankins7722

Ай бұрын

Yess I'll like that🤔😂🤣

I love the mew direction you're taking SciShow. The set looks great and gives the show a more personal touch than the green screen. The longer format is also nice since we get a bit more detail about the topic. You guys are one of my favourite edutainment shows on YT, along with Kurzgesagt and Ted-Ed!

I'm a boney-fish amphibian possibly-reptilian primate

Well, you know, taxonomically speaking humans are fish so thats fun

@shitrowersdo

Ай бұрын

Taxonomically speaking, fish aren't real

@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369

Ай бұрын

@@shitrowersdo Well they are if you include humans and all other descendants in it. A lot of people use it as a paraphyletic group, which are still a type of classification that hold some importance but its my preference to disregard them

Wait: there are salt water electric eels too?

@zenebean

Ай бұрын

Pretty sure they, zebra fish, and goldfish are freshwater fish, so I think there is a script error

@SIC647

Ай бұрын

​@zenebean All living things have salt water in them, and its composition corresponds to the salinity of the ocean when each of these living things evolved. Yes, humans too.

@johannageisel5390

Ай бұрын

Are eels not living in both fresh and salt water? I thought they were reproducing in the Sargasso Sea!?

@lh3540

Ай бұрын

Electric eels are freshwater knife fish found in south America

@erikjohnson9223

Ай бұрын

​@@johannageisel5390As lh3550 pointed out, these are not the eels of which you are thinking. "Electric eels" are merely called "eels" because they have adopted an eel-like method of swimming (& thus also appearance: snake-like body, reduced fins). They are actually a type of freshwater catfish.

@10:44 that book already exists in broad strokes "I Can Turn into a Fish"

10:36 And Cue me pointing out that Frankenstein was no doctor (he went into an angst coma and dropped out of college after the whole 'creating life' incident) and there was no indication of him using lightning or any other form of electricity to make his creature in Shelley's text (it's just sort of ... glossed over. He made the creature, don't worry about the details). Both are essentially inventions of relatively modern adaptations. And by 'relatively modern' I mean somewhere in the thirties.

"... everything from you to your overwatered house plant" Bold of you to assume I remember to water my plants at all XD

Horizontal gene transfer is a lot more Dr Moreau than Dr Frankenstein

10:16 it’s also a remarkable feat for a creature that never lives in the ocean.

@DawnDavidson

Ай бұрын

They did cop to that error in a pinned post, at least.

Prokaryotes are literally the animal kingdoms pan handlers. Surviving rudderlessly from handout to handout just thriving. 😂

@johannageisel5390

Ай бұрын

"Hey! You got some spare genes?"

I vote for :”The Island of Dr Moreau” starring an electric eel making weird genetically engineered animal mashups!

Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish! Fish! (eating fish!) -- Mr Scruff's seminal 1999 classic, Fish

@WeeWeeJumbo

Ай бұрын

Trout are freshwater fish, and have underwater weapons [pew pew pew pew]

@AuntBibby

Ай бұрын

i used to listen to mr. scruff

"What have you have been working on, son?" "I used electric eels to create glowing fish!"

I love the work he did with Doctor Worm

HE IS A STURGEON

WOW! Scishow is approaching 8 million subs! Great job!

I really love the style change for the presentation. I feel like I'm retaining more information from this more conversational experience! Thanks so much for the always-awesome science videos!!

Not really interested in getting head butted by random spiders, thanks. 🕷🐐

Super interesting, and as always Savannah is a wonderful host

Giving one animal another animal's DNA by zapping it with lightning is how genetic engineering would work in a Saturday morning cartoon, AND YET

@sharronhankins7722

Ай бұрын

Yess THIS COMMENT ROCKS!😂😂😂

I remember at university for my research project I was trying to create a genetic recombinant e coli culture and I used electroporation to do so, it kept failing and it was driving me insane. Can't believe eels have been doing it for thousands of years and by accident too no less!

As a chemist that chemical structure at 0:11 makes my eye twitch. All hail the Texas Carbon!

If I were a genetic engineer and I tried to shock my patients they would probably send me to jail

10:38 That goat spider sounds like a horror film waiting to be made

You pretty awesome at delivering the info you share 👏👍, thank you!

I tuned in thinking I'd learn a little and refresh a little, but alas! I learned a lot. You guys are awesome!!!

The one time "X 2: Electric Boogaloo" would be totally appropriate!!

If you think about it, an Electric eel mad scientist is basically just a lightning version of a Zoology dragon, who drives around in his dragon wagon, that likes to mix up things like a cow and a cube (Cowube!)

I love flowering plants. I'm so happy they exist

Happy to learn about such a bizarre concept. Thanks for researching and sharing this!

Can we take a moment to salute the MTG card showing a lighting bolt strike that turned you into sheep? Blue cobtrol represent.

10:36 Sounds like a new Chuck Tingle novel... I'd read it 👍

So well done

10:13 I legit had the thought "oh I wonder if lightning could cause some accidentally gene transfers" and low n behold a few seconds later it was mentioned! How coincidental 😅

She is great. She communicates very well.

Awesome! Thanks!

"They might not understand the concept of engineering" I've had colleagues like that too

This means Electro is a much more formidable villain for Spider-Man than originally thought.

Look like my old fish ? on the thumbnail. Was 26 inches long and 3 inches diameter. Do NOT touch 😂

Nature is wonderful

When Nature finds ways to give you superpowers...

@sharronhankins7722

Ай бұрын

I need some superpowers nature!😆😆

:Chimera ants music plays in the background:

Horizonal gene transfer is wild. I realized plants can do it when my dad threw pumpkin and melon rinds and seeds in our compost and a horrible mutant gourd started growing. My dad even tasted it. Morning glories can also do it. I planted Scarlet O'Haras and Bluebells in the same pot and ended up with wild tie-dye flowers.

@rosalie.e.morgan

Ай бұрын

Remember that a lot of commercially relevant plants just don't breed true, so it could just be the result of more mundane reproduction.

That "electric eel" (Electrophorus electricus) lives in freshwater so it would not "zap" any larvae in the ocean.

9:24 so it turns out that the lyrics to the MGMT song Electric Feel are a lot more literal than I assumed The gene transfer there might be vertical but the activity is definitely still horizontal … and I said ooh girl

Spider goat, spider goat... Does whatever a spider goat does...

I'm not sure if horizontal gene transfer is possible between me and Penelope Cruz, but I'd be willing to give it a try. Well, lots of tries. You know, for science.

Knowing that humans are a specific type of fish (you can never outgrow your past clades, so we're a type of lobe-finned fish), I did truly expect a completely different video. I'm also very glad I wasn't the ONLY one to immediately think this and expect the video to be about it, instead of ferns and hornworts and eels and zebrafish. Not all together in one spot, mind you. 😂 Though that would be some _weird, kingdom-bending_ transfers! 😲

I would absolutely read Frankenstein 2: this time it’s fish

This is probably also how amino acids were created electricity, and the right type of pond/Darwin, Miller/urey professors, UC Berkeley experiment.

Great vid.

I don't have an overwatered house plant, it's underwatered thank you. lol

Wait a second...Did I hear that right? Some ferns eject spores that then eject their own SPERM into a puddle?

I'm picking up "horizontal gene transfer" as a euphamism.

I appreciate your assumption that my house plants are over watered, lmao.

@sandrastreifel6452

Ай бұрын

It’s REALLY hard to overwater most ferns, though…

Cue a buncha idgits running out into thunderstorms holding animals and golf clubs tryna start their superhero origin stories 🤣

you guys should put the topic in the title. like ‘i’m a genetic engineer, i’m also a fish - horizontal gene transfer’

Horizontal Gene Transfer is my new euphemism

All you have to do is define the word "fish" according to phylogeny rather than morphology, then we're all fish! 😛

I’m anti- Spoat. No 🕷 🐐

kudos to the writing on this episode, HYSERICAL

I have a good story for you about electric eels... the ones that live in the Amazon River and tributaries. They are traditionally called Puraque. I am from the village of "Puraque" which is a misnomer. The Americans named the place Puraquequara, which was supposed to mean, *"place of the electric eel."* It should have been *"Por aqui quara",* which is understandable if you speak fluent Portuguese. So the name is a place where I am from is mistakenly called "Puraque" for short. Early on, the native nationals began calling the eel, Puraque since it was broadcasted on TV early on. I wish it had been named correctly since the initials would have been PAQ instead of PQQ. PAQ would have been so much better.

Electric eels aren't actually eels; they're a species of knife fish. I'm glad the freshwater/saltwater thing is already taken care of.

Shows how life is more connected to one another

My dad used to call it the horizontal gene transfer too

AWESOME!

Hey @SciShow, Thanks for many fun examples. How about Agrobacterium?

So...Dr. Frankenstein was an electric eel? LOL.

HUMAN DNA has HGT: endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) as well as our gut microbiomes.

New title, “Shocking love puddles will change you forever.”

Hi Savannah!

I thought there will be one or more genetic engineer interviewed and they would be the fish since we are all much of a fish as sharks, eels, or electric eels (who are scientifically speaking neither eels nor fish). But it was a nice video seven there wasn't any new material in it for me.

Jumping genes were first discovered in corn by Dr. Barbara McLintock.

I am a sturgeon! I am a sturgeon 😬😮😬😮