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Maize Genome Very Complex

By James Furbush | November 20th, 2009 | 1:35 pm UTC

You wouldn’t think the genome sequencing for an ear of corn would turn out to be one of the most complex sequencing that scientists have concluded.  The reason for such complexity is that about 85 percent of its DNA is composed of transposable elements — segments of DNA that can move between locations.

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