Almost every living organism has tiny stretches of DNA that repeat over and over again. Scientists call these tandem repeats, and for a long time they were mostly ignored and even called ‘junk DNA.’ But it turns out these repeats can actually affect how genomes work, how traits appear, and how different organisms are unique from one another.



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