Biology
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Author: Peter Stiling, Robert Brooker, Linda Graham, Eric Widmaier
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Chapter 21.2, Problem 1CC
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To explain: The two reasons due to which group of species shown in part (a) varies in their total amount of DNA.
Introduction: There exists a wide variety of organism in the environment. Different organisms have different types of genomes that make them unique. Animal and plants are highly different from each other. However, they both belong to the category of eukaryotes. Similarly, there are various similar species that share a difference in their total amount of DNA.
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