According to the research just published (2002),
each rice cell contains somewhere in the region
of 40,000 to 60,000 genes, while each human cell
has only about 30,000 to 40,000 genes.

Thursday, 4 April, 2002, 19:25 GMT 20:25 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1910949.stm

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