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Do plants/trees have genes too?

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All life on Earth uses a single genetic system based on DNA and RNA, apart from a few viruses that use just RNA. read more

Much to everyone's surprise, all bilaterally symmetrical animals have a gene complex called HOX, which seems to have evolved just one. Note also, there are no "genes for fingers" or "genes for leaves". A lot of popular writing about genetics could lead you to think there were: Professor Dawkins is one of the offenders. read more

Some genes are interrupted by long stretches of "silent" DNA for which we do not know a function. We may have mapped the whole genome of a few organisms (humans, Aarabidopsis etc), but this is little more than a "road map" and we have yet to identify the "houses" and, more significantly, the "inhabitants" of those houses. read more

There are thousands of species of trees and all of their genomes have not been sequenced. All life on Earth is related and shares a common ancestor. Humans and trees share many traits, such as growth, sexual reproduction, respiration, death, meiosis, gametes, and the need for water, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, iron, magnesium, and copper. read more

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