Ferns are super weird – and their genomes are even more chaotic than we thought
There’s something actually particular about ferns. Their DNA is unusual and complicated. In reality, a species of fern – Ophioglossum reticulatum, or the viper fern – holds the report for the multicellular organism with the best variety of chromosomes. About 720 pairs of chromosomes are present in most of its cell nuclei. Nicely, seems we … Read more