Word: roundworms
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Today, four years later, a total of 20 genomes have been fully decoded, 10 of them at TIGR. In December scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and at the Sanger Centre passed a new milestone by decoding the first animal genome, that of a tiny roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans. At 97 million letters, C. elegans' genome is by far the most sophisticated ever sequenced. But if Venter's newly formed Celera (derived from the word celerity, which means swiftness) can pull it off, his proposal to shotgun the entire 3 billion-letter human genome in three years will make...
...Number of genes in the roundworm vs. an estimated 100,000 in humans...
...Percentage of genes found in the roundworm that are also found in humans...