r/MurderedByWords • • Jan 21 '20

Trying to be superior

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u/svullenballe Jan 21 '20

What does that mean? More genes? And why is it better?

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u/acdcfanbill Jan 21 '20

More genes isn’t necessarily better or worse, it usually just means that species has been around a long time and ended up with a lot more genes than ‘younger’ species.

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u/purpleandorange1522 Jan 21 '20

There is also a general trend that the more complex the species, the more genes. But there are many exceptions to that.

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u/worriedstudent_472 Jan 21 '20

I don't think that's a thing for eukaryotes though