An international team has sequenced the genome of the
carnivorous bladderwort plant , Utricularia gibba . Their
findings suggest that the carnivorous plant has ditched
virtually all its non-coding DNA, retaining a set of sequences
that's almost exclusively genic. "What that says is that you can
have a perfectly good multicellular plant with lots of different
cells, organs, tissue types and flowers, and you can do it
without the ['junk' DNA]," said co-corresponding author Victor
Albert.