an ancient strain of virus from millions of years ago incorporated themselves into our genome

not just one. 5-8% of the human genome comes from viruses

Everything is virus: one of the theories of how cells went from RNA to DNA is viruses.

Forterre (2006) proposed that early cellular lineages diversified while still harboring RNA genomes, with viruses and cells coexisting from the beginning. In his model, the first fixation of DNA occurred in viruses, which subsequently transferred the enzymes necessary for DNA synthesis and maintenance into independent cellular lineages. Thus, RNA genomes in ancestral cells were converted into DNA genomes via viral intermediates (Forterre, 2002, 2006). The structural and functional differences among cellular replication systems would then reflect the independent viral origins of DNA replication machinery.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303264725002813

"Redwood are algae" is a similar statement to "Pterodactyls are fish" or "bees are crustaceans". Redwoods are land plants, thus are also members of Viridiplantae - the clade containing land plants and green algae. The sister taxa to Viridiplantae in clade Archaeplastida are Glaucophyta (unicellular algae), and Rhodaria (contains red algae among other things). Thus since land plants are more closely related to green algae than green algae is to red algae or glaucophytes, if we want to treat the term "algae" as a monophyletic clade, then we have to include land plants in that, which of course includes redwoods. Essentially, this framing would make the term "algae" equivalent to Archaeplastida.

Another simpler interpretation (same idea as "ducks are dinosaurs") might be that all land plants evolved from algae, and nothing can evolve out of a clade, therefore plants must be algae. My hesitation to put this first is due to the fact that I'm unsure if the most recent common ancestor of green algae and plants would itself be classified as algae - this is an exercise left to the reader.

Damn, how did the horse ancestors walk with toes the size of small dogs?

Knowledge is power.

french is fries which is belgian

It could explain why some people suffer emotional distress while under antibiotics (I get severe depression).

More than 90% of the serotonin in your body is produced in your gut in a process that is regulated by bacteria. This serotonin not only aids in digestion, but interacts with nerves that communicate with the central nervous system to alter mood and mental health

If you experience severe depression under antibiotics, you might try to take some probiotic supplements that have strains including Lactobacillus and Streptococcus along with a helping of some soluble fiber.

It could explain why some people suffer emotional distress while under antibiotics

Or just that nuking gut bacteria messes with the gut brain axis...

babe wake up new genre of existential crisis just dropped

Some fish are fish

• dolphins are fish

Just a friendly reminder that, like fish, humans are coated with protective slime!

Ducks are avians, thus descended from dinosaurs.

Anatomically, the hoof of a horse is equivalent to a human middle fingernail.

There are "sea bees" tiny crustaceans that are pollinators of underwater plants. Both crustaceans and "bugs" are arthropods.

Not sure about the pterodactyl fish reference.

Redwoods and all plants really descend from photosynthetic algae.

About 8% of the human genome is composed of ancient viral DNA from viruses that integrated into DNA...

It's cladistics.

"Theoretically, a last common ancestor and all its descendants constitute a (minimal) clade. Importantly, all descendants stay in their overarching ancestral clade. For example, if the terms worms or fishes were used within a strict cladistic framework, these terms would include humans."

Yeahhh, I looked it up and I don't know what OP meant. there are redwood lichen who live symbiotically with the trees but are separate life forms.

Then there's the "redwoods of the sea" huge kelp like algae structures that resemble tree growth patterns but.. like aren't the actual redwood trees.

soooo yeah. I dunno.

Careful you don’t get banned for being an eco fascist. 🫣

You know, I'm starting to think that our whole universe is just a cancerous 3+1D polyp on the ass of an entire, proper universe with more dimensions, mass, and energy, and less corruption.

I find pedants are often wrong or completely missing the point.

Sometimes it triggers a fun discussion. and sometimes it's just tedious.

(ghoti could never be pronounced like "fish" because "gh" only sounds like an F near the end of a word after au or ou, but ghoti is at least an interesting way to bring up the topic of weird inconsistencies of the english language, even if it's wrong)

Almost everything is a worm. Not just in heredity, but also in form. You are a worm that uses long mineral deposits and muscles to stand erect and move around in an erect position for some reason. Weirdest worm.