Friday, December 2, 2011

Polychaos dubium is a freshwater amoeboid and one of the larger species of protist.

Polychaos dubium may have the largest genome known for any organism, consisting of 670 billion base pairs of DNA,[6] which is over 200 times larger than the human genome. The authors of one study, however, suggest treating that measurement with caution, because it was taken before the advent of modern genomic methods.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychaos_dubium

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