Only 30,000 genes!
How did you react to the news? Did it feel rather like being told that you had only got 30% in an examination, or only a third of the salary you had expected?
Nancy Darrall
Worse than only having 30,000 genes is the comparison with a small garden weed with 26,000 and a fruit fly with 14,000 genes. Professor Bowbrow was not to be upset.
