4/27 Question

4/27 Question

by Valeria Pott -
Number of replies: 1

In the New York Times article, it mentioned that the SARS-CoV-2 genome is 30,000 “letters” long, and that humans have over 3 billion “letters”. That just made me think of the length of other genomes and so I was wondering if there were any viruses, bacteria, fungi, or parasites that come near the amount of “letters” that humans have in their genome.

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Re: 4/27 Question

by Barbara Christie-Pope -

Actually, it isn't the size of the genome that is important.  There is a Japanese flower that has a genome 50 times the size of humans, so does a lungfish.  What matters is the content of the genome.