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#Gorillas, Watermelons and Sperm: The Greatest Genomes Sequenced In 2012click to launch the photo galleryclick to launch the photo galleryin the 10 years since the complete human genome was published molecular biologists have been hard at work unraveling the genomic codes of multitudes of life forms. What stands out time and again is how much all life shares in common and how complex everything is. Did you know the domesticated watermelon has about as many genes as you do? In 2012 genome researchers sequenced the DNA of an unborn human baby the western lowland gorilla fruits and grains and livestock. Click through our gallery to see the highlights. in 30%of the genome gorilla is closer to human or chimpanzee than the latter are to each other. from a nature article on the gorilla genome...which puts some of the traditional tree of life in a hard spot t

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