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[-] Hugin@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

The main reason for there being so many varieties is that at some point in the past the plants genome tripled. With three copies of the genome not only was there a higher chance of mutation but a mutation didn't deleted the original dna segment as it was in the other copies.

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