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Fly Genome Puzzles Evolutionary Scientists
Published 3 years, 2 months ago
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Genes carry the biological information to make specific living things. Evolution says that simpler living things evolved first, and more complex life evolved later. This would lead us to believe that more complex living things would have developed more genes.
Photo: Side view of fruit fly. Courtesy of Karl Magnacca. (CC BY-SA 2.5)