stackyFACTSGetting blasted by heavy radiation completely shreds normal DNA, but Deinococcus radiodurans simply treats it as a minor inconvenience. It maintains multiple backup copies of its genome and uses hyper-aggressive proteins to perfectly reassemble its own totally shattered code in hours.
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