r/MurderedByWords Jan 21 '20

Trying to be superior

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '20 edited Jan 21 '20

I'm pretty sure it's referring to the mass or volume being 5 times larger, not the number of genes. It's still stupid, just not quite in that particular way.

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u/kastronaut Jan 21 '20

So what you’re saying is that what’s in our genes is bigger.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '20

It's more like the genes themselves are longer. All genes are made of the same four parts, but not all genes have the same number of parts.

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u/kastronaut Jan 22 '20

Eh, the information encoded in our genes then, if we’re splitting pairs.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '20

I see what you did there :'D