MENDOCINO CO., 4/24/19 — Exciting science news yesterday from the University of California, Davis, John Hopkins University and Save the Redwood: the genome of both the Coast Redwood and the Sequoia have been fully sequenced, with the Coast Redwood being the second longest genome ever sequence (after the Axolotl), coming in at a whooping 27 billion base pairs, or nine times longer than our own succinct 3 billion base pairs. A base-pair is effectively the alphabet of DNA, the blueprint of life.
Anyhow, it’s pretty big scientific accomplishment that will help with conservation efforts on the North Coast, by allowing scientists to understand the level of genetic diversity in a given section of forest, and act to increase diversity, thereby giving the species a better chance to thrive in the future.
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