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Sean Carroll 26-04-2003 01:23 PM

tomato existed before the potato tomato? Solanum or Lycopersicon potato was a mutated
 
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 02:32:00 -0600, Archimedes Plutonium
wrote:

I do not have proof of that claim. For I think the genome of the potato and
tomato plants are decades away from obtaining and the comparing of those
2 genomes. The wild potato and wild tomato not the hybridized domestic
stocks.


But I think I can make the claim from commonsense reasoning.


'Common sense is the collection of unexamined prejudices that the mind
picks up before the age of 18.' --Albert Einstein

--Sean
http://www.livejournal.com/users/spclsd223/


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