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Genetics is the branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics.

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Why was it so hard to decode the corn genome?

The short answer is that corn genome is large and has a huge amount of duplication events. Around 80% of the genome are repeated. It's hard to assemble genomes with large amount of duplications becaus …
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