(April 4, 2016 at 4:21 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Speaking of pond slime.... I got reminded of chromosome count on different animals/plants/etc...From Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_or...some_count
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Adder's tongue (Ophioglossum reticulatum), a member of this family, is notable for having as many as 1260 chromosomes.[5] For comparison, humans have 46 chromosomes, consisting of 23 pairs.
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It's a plant... and it gets far more "info" than humans?!
Heck... even dogs have more chromosomes than people!
Some design...
"The number of chromosomes in an organism's genome also does not necessarily correlate with the amount of DNA in its genome."