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The Human Genome; Wheat the heck?

manilatop10 @manilatop10 (371) • Philippines 30 Aug 10

I was surprised to read recently that "Wheat’s genetic code contains 16bn chemical letters and an estimated 80,000 genes." This is reported to be 5 times larger than the human genome! The report came out on BBC and was a...

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shortest man on Earth

cripfemme @cripfemme (7698) • United States 31 Oct 08

I was watching the show Superhuman on TLC yesterday and they had a show on primordial dwarfs. They are the shortest people on Earth. They look normal except that they are very very small. The shortest man on Earth lives in China,...

shortest man on earth

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