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(4,175 posts) Tue Feb 22, 2022, 06:50 AM Feb 2022

In honor of today's date: 2/22/22

Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer:

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In honor of today's date: 2/22/22 (Original Post) 634-5789 Feb 2022 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Anon-C Feb 2022 #1

Tangled up in two: a burst of genome duplications ... Donkees Feb 2022 #2

Uh...WHAT? 634-5789 Feb 2022 #3

More, More, and Even MORE !!!!! Stuart G Feb 2022 #4

The Deuce is What Donkees Feb 2022 #5

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Donkees

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2. Tangled up in two: a burst of genome duplications ...

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Tue Feb 22, 2022, 08:45 AM

Feb 2022

''A particularly striking feature of plant genomes, also explaining their large sizes, is the large number of whole genome duplications (WGDs) that have been uncovered [2–4]. It is now commonly accepted that one WGD occurred in the ancestor of all seed plants, and an extra one in the ancestor of all flowering plants, so that every extant angiosperm is in fact a palaeopolyploid containing the remnants of at least two WGDs. ... it appears that there exists a strong link between environmental stress and/or fluctuation and genome duplication...''

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2013.0353