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Cracked Corn: Scientists Solve Maize's Genetic Maze
The complex corn genome—coming in at a hearty two billion base pairs (compared with the human genome's 2.9 billion base pairs)—has been mapped by more than 150 researchers, who worked for years to decipher the grain's genetic code .
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50 Years Ago: The Nutcracker Man
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Polarized Peepers: Crustacean's Eyes Surpass Man-Made Optical Devices in Manipulating Light
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New DNA data solves the mystery of the Falklands wolf that puzzled Darwin
For Sale: Human Eggs Become a Research Commodity
Cracked Corn: Scientists Solve Maize's Genetic Maze
Getting Those Varmints to Vamoose without Lethal Measures
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