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Largest genome of animal
September 19 , 2024
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- The South American lungfish is an extraordinary creature and a living fossil.
- It is inhabiting slow-moving and stagnant waters in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana and Paraguay.
- It is the nearest living relative to the first land vertebrates and closely resembles its primordial ancestors dating back more than 400 million years.
- This freshwater species (Lepidosiren paradoxa) also has the largest genome – all the genetic information of an organism – of any animal on the earth.
- Its genome is to be about 30-times the size of the human genetic blueprint.
- The length of the DNA in each cell of this lungfish would extend almost 60 metres.
- The human genome would extend a mere 2 metres.
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