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minecon1776 t1_j51esw2 wrote on January 19, 2023 at 6:53 PM

Reply to comment by suvlub in Given that reproduction is difficult or impossible when both animals have different numbers of chromosomes, how did so many species evolve to have so many different numbers of them? by MercurioLeCher

maybe this is what all that "unused" dna codons are for. It is to make when a chromosome splits, the odds that the broken part is in a vital gene very low.