Evolution in Plain Sight

Changes in the Earth like rising climate changes are going to lead to disasters in our eco system. Although this is the most widely talked outcome of this change, there is more to it then just bad outcomes; in fact this is a time to witness evolution. As rising temperatures are making the acidity in the ocean greater, there is a huge decline in sea coral. Scientist Mikhail Matz says “Corals have a substantial potential to evolve, and this is the high time for them to do it,” Matz is the leading scientist of a research group that are using modern technology to study changes in the corals RNA. Matz believes that witnessing evolution with their own eyes will not only prove all their theories of evolution but help them understand the cellular side of it. To go about this Matz will use modern day sequencing computers that can interpret the change in the genome. He will look for changes in the genome that would lead to the coral evolving. Matz is the first to use this method and hopes that by studying this he can better explain what evolution is. If things go as he plans then he will have a strong evidence of evolution that will for the firs time be in plain site.
Evolution is a theory that has brought a lot of confusion in our present day world. People still believe that god created all living beings but the theory of evolution contradicts all of the information we read from the bible. The theory of evolution is in fact true but why haven’t people learned to accept it? Is because we are afraid to admit that for the past thousands of years we based our lively hood and morals on a thousand page book. This topic is extremely important to research and publish because and probably answer the most contradicting question, does a god exist? Even though this may be not the reason why Matz is doing this, it will still leave most religious believers at a stand still. Religion is not the only reason why this should be studied; there are more important things to discover from it.
This is a direct topic of biology because it deals with the study of life and evolution. It deals with the genome, RNA, and genes which are all topics of biology. If Matz truly expects to see the coral evolve then this will be a huge topic that will most likely be awarded with the peace price. For this to be studied a scientist must know biology because this evolution happens at a cellular level and if you don’t know what your looking for then you will not be able to understand what happens to the genome, for example, during evolution



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http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=117130&org=NSF