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Human genome contains roughly twenty thousand unique genes

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Despite thinking we are the absolute pinnacle of complex life, our genetic instruction manual is embarrassingly concise. We possess around twenty thousand unique protein-coding genes, which is roughly the exact same amount found in a microscopic roundworm. Nature clearly used a highly optimized, heavily recycled blueprint to build the entire human framework.

Human genome contains roughly twenty thousand unique genes
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