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Neoerectus · M
With the hybridized wheats US uses that the genome has gotten very long in a very short evolutionary time period. It is a wonder we can digest it at all.
"Modern wheat is allohexaploid, meaning it contains six sets of chromosomes from three different ancestral species (designated A, B, and D) that hybridized naturally over thousands of years.
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The bread wheat (hexaploid) genome is extraordinarily large, with about 17 billion base pairs—roughly five times larger than the human genome."
"Modern wheat is allohexaploid, meaning it contains six sets of chromosomes from three different ancestral species (designated A, B, and D) that hybridized naturally over thousands of years.
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The bread wheat (hexaploid) genome is extraordinarily large, with about 17 billion base pairs—roughly five times larger than the human genome."




