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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 02:43 PM
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Pinot noir grapes have more genes than humans
you just can't make this stuff up...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/ap_on_re_eu/france_grape_genome

A team of French and Italian researchers has mapped the genome of the pinot noir grape, used to make bubbly and many red wines from France's Burgundy region and around the world — and it has about 30,000 genes in its DNA. That's more than the human genome, which contains some 20,000 to 25,000 genes.

Consider the implications. How many genes, for instance, do tomatoes have?



:scared: :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:

Then again, it could be that they just picked the wrong human subject:

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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 02:50 PM
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1. When I squeezed the juice out of that Hobo, it made lousy wine
Now I know why.
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