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Carl Zimmer

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This little Pacific fern has the biggest genome yet found--50 times bigger than ours. Here's my story on the evolution of extreme genomes. 🧪 [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/s...

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christoph_STCmicrobeblog's avatar christoph_STCmicrobeblog @christophstc.bsky.social
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Isn't it getting terribly boring that we are constantly staring at the biggest numbers and craving more "records" like addicts? I for one find the number of genes – as difficult as it is to determine – much more exciting than measuring the length of chromosomes in mega baisepairs...

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