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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 21 October 2013 05:37:44PM 3 points [-]

Organisms like bacteria that have much more iterations behind them then humans also tend to have less waste in their DNA.

Grasses beat trees at growing in glades with animals that eat plants. Why? Grass has more iterations behind them and is therefore better optimized for the enviroment than the trees.

You seem to be predicting that grasses have smaller genomes than trees, but wheat is famous for having a huge genome. Here's a table of a few plants. Maybe wheat is an outlier and I'd be interested if you had documentation of some pattern, but I've always heard that there is none.

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