The Tomato Gene Has Been Sequenced

The news everyone has been anticipating…that's right, the tomato genome has been sequenced! Plant geneticists from 14 countries spent the last 9 years working on the tomatoes' behemoth genome, which contains over 31,000 genes…that's more than us humans. -Gen'Anne'tics

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