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The Genome of Your Thanksgiving Supper

Posted by samzenpus on from the ACGT-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here's a fact you can distract your family with over the Thanksgiving table: many of the major ingredients in Thanksgiving foods have had their genomes sequenced. Biomedical researchers are interested in the turkey genome due to the animal's susceptibility to cancer; botanists are studying the genome of the Chinese chestnut to search for the root of its resistance to chestnut blight; and corn — well, corn's genome is just cool."

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  1. caner? by Pharmboy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Caner? Rly? I mean, I know the editors are busy (choking back laughter) but caner? Has it really gotten so bad that an EDITOR can't spell cancer or properly proof read a one paragraph summary?

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