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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Biodiversity@mander.xyzEnglish · 11 months ago

This tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth

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This tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth

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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Biodiversity@mander.xyzEnglish · 11 months ago
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In a new study published in the journal iScience, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB-CSIC) in Spain present a new record-holder for the largest amount of DNA stored in the nucleus of any living organism on the planet.
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    My girlfriend tells me it’s not the size of the genome that matters, it’s how you use it.

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    Tiny?

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      The article doesn’t mention the size, but the stem is 15~30cm long, and most of its height. For comparison some ferns reach 100x that size.

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