These ants are known to jump long distances. These ants are large; workers and males are about the same size: 12 to 14 mm (0.47 to 0.55 in) for workers, and 11 to 12 mm (0.43 to 0.47 in) for males. The queen measures roughly 14 to 16 mm (0.55 to 0.63 in) long and is similar in appearance to workers.The jack jumper ant genome is contained on a single pair of chromosomes (males have just one chromosome). This is the lowest number known for any animal
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Bed bugs feed on people and are considered parasites, they are 3 to 9 millimetres (0.12 to 0.35 in) long and have flat reddish-brown bodies with small nonfunctional wings because they like having them for decoration. Bed bugs have 26 non-sex genes and varying number of the sex chromosomes, adding up to 29-47 chromosomes.
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An atlas blue butterfly is a newer species only being discovered in 1905 and is 25 to 30 cm in size, it has the highest chromosome count besides some fungi and plants. This butterfly has 448–452 chromosomes, 224–26 pairs per cell. If you ever saw this little bug out in the wild you would never guess it had such complex genes.
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