Not exact matches
Cavendish fruits have no seeds,
do not sexually reproduce (and therefore are genetically
identical), and have three sets of chromosomes (triploid), which made its
genome very difficult to sequence.
One of the central mysteries of biology is why the
genome is largely
identical from cell to cell, even though cells
do different things.
But the fascinating finding was that the sets of
identical twins — with
identical genomes — reported the same exact levels of fidelity, while fraternal twins and regular siblings didn't.
«This is the low resolution way to
do things — viruses that appear
identical may have completely different
genomes,» Sullivan explained.