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.
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.