Any genes that we still share with plants?
I was looking at some flowers the other day and started thinking. I know we're very evolutionarily distant from plants and our bodies and cells work very differently than theirs do. But it got me wondering if humans, or animals in general, still share some fundamental parts of our genomes with them. Even if its coding for the same proteins even though they do very different things in plants and animals or a section in our DNA that defended against a virus that attacked ancient eukaryotes. Really anything, it'd just be cool to look at a plant and be like "hey, you're like me."
Posted Jul 9, 2025, 11:25 PM UTC
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