"I find it hard to swallow that I have only ten times more genes than those lowly bacteria in my gut. I had always liked the fact that they have ten thousand times less DNA than I did — that felt about right — but a factor of ten was carrying democracy a bit too far."
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Jeff's view on science and scientists (Amsterdam, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006, , pbk.), Ch. 3: "Me and my genome" (p. 22).
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