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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. Re:No, corn is not cool by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Corn is probably the biggest example of bullshit monopolies in action ever. Monsanto has all the corn. All of it.

    That's odd. My grandparents grow corn. How does Monsanto have that corn?