liberalsurfer

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   by liberalsurfer 10y ago

   If you think about what is required for a mammal to survive multiple environments it seems intuitive the more environments a mammal can survive the more genes is needed to create different phenotypes (observable characteristics of an organi
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   by liberalsurfer 10y ago

   Not true. Majority of bacterial cells have far less genes than 15,000.
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   by liberalsurfer 10y ago

   Agreed, number of bases gives little information about the complexity of an organism. Genes is a better metric.