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effort and subsequent refinements. By comparison, the microscopic water flea Daphnia pulex has about 31,000 genes; the nematode C. elegans about 19,700; the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) about 14,000; the zebrafish (Danio rerio), 26,000; and the small flowering plant ''Arabidopsis'' ''thaliana'', 27,000. Plants in general tend to have more genes than other eukaryotes. One

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