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Scientists have been busy figuring out the genes of lots of organisms, not just humans.So far they have done mice, chimpanzees(ºÚÐÉÐÉ), worms, yeast(½Íĸ), just to name a few. And now we can add ...
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Scientist have been busy figuring out genes of lots of organisms, not just human's. So far they have done mice, chimpanzees, yeast, just name a few. And now we can add a tree's genome to that markedly assortment.
. e" P Y9 k) c O6 |. yLast week, in the General Science, a team of research just reported the DNA sequence of a black cottonwood, a tree in the poplar family. They identified 45,000 genes in the poplar, which is
weigh in more than the 30,000 or so that humans have. So what makes a poplar a popular plant to study? Well, its genome is relatively small, just 1/40 of the size of
the pine tree genome, for example. They also grow fast, so scientist can crossbreed them and get mature trees to experiment on before they grow old and grey. The scientists, not the trees, I mean. And the poplar's fast grow makes them an attractive feed stock for bio-fuels, like ethanol, an alternative to gasoline. With genomes in hand, scientists can find ways to improve the tree's usefulness perhaps creating varieties that grow even faster, or are easier to process.
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