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purduephotog t1_irny0jd wrote

Reply to comment by WantsToBeUnmade in What lifeform has the shortest genetic sequence? by teafuck

> 149 billion base pairs. Humans have 3 billion.

How the...

Is this one that's been cultivated to be 'enriched'?

If this is a topic you're knowledgeable on, could you save me a few hours of reading- are there tons of duplicates? Other plants? Are there entire sequences that exist that are replicates of other sequences in there ?

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derekjoel t1_irohal5 wrote

What really makes logical sense but still is crazy is that plants with HUGE genomes grow slower because they use a lot of cellular energy copying themselves. Bigger printouts take more energy to print, of course.

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