This tiny ocean sea anemone is a very childlike lifeform whose glowing yellow backtalk is its most prominent feature . But when bio geek at UC Berkeley sequence the anemone ’s genome last year , they discovered that it had roughly the same identification number of genes that man have . Plus , many of those factor are torpid duplicates of human ones . Does this intend that if we activated those genes , an windflower could grow a human eubstance ?
Mark Martindale , a investigator who worked on the sea anemone genome project , say :
It turns out . . . [ anemones ] have about the same factor as humans , but they do n’t have cell type , organs , lung and pancreas , and limb and brain . Yet they have all the factor in the genome used to render those structures in craniate .
Hmmm , that could intend yes . If we had the engineering to interchange those unexpressed cistron on . Which we do n’t .
Anemones have about 18,000 genes , while humans have about 20 - 25 thousand gene in our genome . That makes humanity and anemone a lot more gene - packed than some insects ( fruitflies have 13,379 genes ) and a lot less than some works ( rice have 37,544 genes ) . Photo by Nicholas Putnam / UC Berkeley .
Genetically , sea anemone has human complexity[Star Bulletin ]
sea anemone genome give fresh vista of multi - celled ancestors[UC Berkeley ]
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