Why Do Tomatoes Need More Genes Than Humans?
Why does it take more Genes to make a tomato than a human?
Why Do Tomatoes Need More Genes Than Humans?
The tomato genome has been decoded! Plant genetics from 14 different countries it has, in the past ten years to determine the genetic make-up of tomatoes, and it turned out that tomatoes contain 31,760 genes, which have about 7,000 more genes than humans!
The tomato genome is closer to that of potatoes. (These are two of the plants, parts of 92 per cent of their DNA.) Why, a genome map of a tomato at all? The scientists hope that this information can be used to improve tomato breeding, the tomato genome as an integral part of interest, as well as a key to the understanding of the universal, the plant family to which it belongs, including potato, tobacco, plants, peppers, eggplants, and the Solanaceae family. The full findings of the study have been published in the journal Nature.
– Written By Shivani Thakkar
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