What Limits a Genome’s Size?
Codon
JUNE 13, 2024
Credit: Oriane Hidalgo Per the book Cell Biology by the Numbers , each base pair of DNA occupies 1 nm 3 of space. 1 A single-celled protist, Polychaos dubia , was once thought to have the largest genome. The New Caledonian fork fern has clearly found a solution to this problem.
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