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Goldfish have more chromosomes than humans.
One in ten cats in New England has six or seven toes on each paw.
There exists a real genetic disorder that makes individuals smell like rotting fish.
In the future, you might receive a vaccination by eating a banana split.
Humans are 99.9% identical – only .1% of our genetic makeup differs.
2003 marked the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints.
Humans share genes with bananas.
Scient
ists have studied the DNA of 30-million-year-old termites and a Neanderthal.
If the total DNA in one person were laid in a straight line, it would stretch to the sun and back over 600 times
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