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If, for some reason, you ever find yourself reading a bunch of papers about cryptomonads, you might come across this strange fact: they have four genomes. That sounds like a lot of genomes. But what does that even mean? And what does the cryptomonas do with all those genomes? Follow Journey to the Microcosmos: Twitter: https://twitter.com/journeytomicro Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JourneyToMicro Shop The Microcosmos: https://www.microcosmos.store Support the Microcosmos: http://www.patreon.com/journeytomicro More from Jam’s Germs: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jam_and_germs YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn4UedbiTeN96izf-CxEPbg Hosted by Hank Green: Twitter: https://twitter.com/hankgreen YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/vlogbrothers Music by Andrew Huang: https://www.youtube.com/andrewhuang Journey to the Microcosmos is a Complexly production. Find out more at https://www.complexly.com SOURCES: http://e-algae.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.4490/algae.2013.28.4.307 ↩︎ https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evx123 https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-origin-of-plastids-14125758/ https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1434461004701480 https://www.science.org/content/article/first-eukaryotes-found-without-normal-cellular-power-supply https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/doi/10.1093/gbe/evq082/573270?login=false https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/botany/chapter/cryptophytes/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265520014_Cryptomonad_taxonomy_in_the_21st_century_The_first_200_years https://www.google.com/books/edition/Algal_Culturing_Techniques/-qWHAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1434461004701315 http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/nova_hedwigia/detail/79/73140/Pringsheim_s_living_legacy_CCALA_CCAP_SAG_and_UTEX?af=crossref http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/nova_hedwigia/detail/79/73140/Pringsheim_s_living_legacy_CCALA_CCAP_SAG_and_UTEX?af=crossref https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S096098222300458X This video has been dubbed using an artificial voice via https://aloud.area120.google.com to increase accessibility. You can change the audio track language in the Settings menu.