Talk:Utricularia gibba

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A news item involving Utricularia gibba was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 15 May 2013.

This sentence confuses me "some species of Genlisea, also Lentibulariaceae, have genomes as large as 1.5 gigabases (and some as small as 60 megabases)". The genome of U. gibba is 80 Mb, which is apparently not that special if other plants have 60 Mb genomes. What's with that? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 11:21, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps because the species with the smaller genome has not been fully sequenced yet.96.54.42.226 (talk) 17:52, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The term genetic code has a defined meaning in science, the relationship between base triplets in codons and the amino acids encoded. Although the popular press commonly uses genetic code in the sense of genetic content, an authoritative scientific article should avoid doing so.96.54.42.226 (talk) 17:55, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]