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castratikron
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How Elephants Avoid Cancer (2015)
Humans only have one in their
genome
. You get one from each of your parents. So everyone has two copies of p53. You can afford to lose exactly one of those copies, but once you lose the second...
folli
on July 5, 2017
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Well, if you count this way then elephants have 40 copies. While talking about number of genes in mammals diploidy is usually implicitly assumed.
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