Question #151349. Asked by
BigTriviaDawg.
Last updated Jun 29 2024.
Originally posted Jun 29 2024 8:13 PM.
Compared to humans, "C. elegans" seems a fairly lowly creature. Its genome contains a mere 97 million DNA base pairs, compared to more than three billion for "Homo sapiens." But people have a surprising amount in common with this worm, which lives out its life rarely observed in the soil of temperate regions.