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Plants in general have much larger genomes than animals, and that's clearly a definition of complexity.
by falcor84 2y ago
Plants in general have much larger genomes than animals, and that's clearly a definition of complexity.
- immibis 2y agoThat just means they have less selective pressure to reduce it - possibly because they are simpler. Genome size isn't correlated much without complexity. Obviously it provides an upper bound, but a lot of genes are repeats.
- saagarjha 2y agoYes. You'll find that plants generally survive better after being irradiated, indicating that a lot of these genes are apparently not important.
- falcor84 2y agoLarge software systems also often have significant chunks of code that is only historical and/or "accidental complexity" and can be removed. But we would typically say that removing it is reducing the system's complexity, rather than that it wasn't complex.
- saagarjha 2y agoGenes are not maintained by people