Q: I grew sweet peas this summer and loved filling the house with their flowers. The plants have finished and I was going to clear them away to the compost heap but noticed a lot of pods on them.
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Folks who struggle to reduce their carb intake might be able to blame ancient DNA still lurking in humans, a new study suggests. Humans carry multiple copies of the salivary amylase gene (AMY1 ...
Amylase, which is produced in the salivary glands and the pancreas, is also the reason why even non-sugary carbs like bread sometimes taste sweet. Today’s modern humans have varying numbers of ...
Our ancient DNA may have shaped our love for bread, pasta, rice, and other carbs. We have long known that our species carries multiple copies of the genes that allow us to begin breaking down ...
You are what you eat: How the pursuit of carbs changed mammals' genes and saliva May 14, 2019 Angiosperms study provides insights into genome evolution after whole-genome duplications ...