• Question: Is it true that carrots have more genes than humans?

    Asked by Sashascience7613 to Ben, Francis, Max on 16 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Ben Mulhearn

      Ben Mulhearn answered on 16 Mar 2018:


      You know, I have no idea! I think humans have about 30,000 genes. I’m not sure about carrots. It’s important to remember though that some genes are obselete, in that we think they don’t hold any function. If they do, we haven’t discovered what it is yet!

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