You Want Better Beer? Good. Here’s a Better Barley Genome
You Want Better Beer? Good. Here’s a Better Barley Genome
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 1, 201710m 5s
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Show Notes
The genome of barley—the grain that’s the soul of beer and whiskey—is weird. The commodity crop has just seven pairs of chromosomes (compared to your 23, assuming you are a human being) but twice the size of your genome overall, with the vast majority of the sequences repeating themselves. And you care because (making the same assumption again) you care about beer and whiskey, even just in the abstract.
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