When describing the octopus,
journalists tend to run out of superlatives. A writer in Nature described it as an eight-legged marvel and another used the expressions octopus ballet and uncanny intelligence.
Few animals can match its intelligence.
Jumping genes move about in the part of the genome once dismissed as junk. Some believe that octopuses genome abounds in transposons or transposable elements (TEs). Also known as jumping genes, they can move from one place to another within the genome. hen describing the octopus, journalists tend to run out of superlatives. A writer in Nature described it as an eight-legged marvel and another used the expressions octopus ballet and uncanny intelligence. Few animals can match its intelligence. Jumping genes move about in the part of the genome once dismissed as junk.
Now, a new study has likened them to humans.