What Limits a Genome’s Size?
Codon
JUNE 13, 2024
The researchers measured the fluorescence of each nucleus using a device called a flow cytometer, and found that samples from the New Caledonian fork fern were about 9-times brighter than those from an onion. Credit: Oriane Hidalgo Per the book Cell Biology by the Numbers , each base pair of DNA occupies 1 nm 3 of space.
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