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Mapping the Way to a Better Soybean
It could lead to better digestion for pigs and chickens, less water pollution and new ways to prevent crop disease.Soybeans are eaten by people and fed to animals.Some farmers grow them to replace lost nitrogen in the soil.
Soybeans were first grown in Asia thousands of years ago.
He says the kind of soybeans they studied have forty-six thousand genes.
Between seventy and eighty percent of them, however, are copies of other genes.

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I did not think that a bean had gene tens of thousands of. What will happen to the bean in our body eating a bean? I thought the bean to be very mysterious food. All the adzuki bean and the green soybeans can do it, and will one be different from a soy bean?