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World's largest genome
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- The fork fern species, called Tmesipteris oblanceolata, has a genome that is 7% larger than that of the previous record-holder and more than 50 times the size of the human genome.
- The previous record-holder is Japanese flowering plant Paris japonica.
- The Larger genomes require more resources for DNA replication, repair and transcription.
- The genome has all the genetic information of an organism
- There also is no relationship between an organism's physical size and its genome size.
- The little fern's genome is about 6,000% bigger than that of a blue whale and about 4,650% bigger than that of an African elephant.
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