• Question: What is the wheat genome?

    Asked by to Ricardo on 17 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Ricardo Ramirez answered on 17 Jun 2014:

      The genome, in general, it is all the information about how to construct a plant, or an animal. In the case of the humans, we have 22 chromosome pairs, plus the XX and XY, which give the gender. Each chromosome has genes, which are the instructions to do proteins, which would be like the components of a machine.

      In the case of wheat, it has 7 chromosome sextets (is that even a word?! they come in 6, not in 2s). And the genes in them are the ones that tell how the wheat is going to be.

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