Largest Genome Ever

sciencehabit writes "A rare Japanese flower named Paris japonica sports an astonishing 149 billion base pairs, making it 50 times the size of a human genome — and the largest genome ever found. The genome would be taller than Big Ben if stretched out end to end. The researchers warn however that big genomes tend to be a liability: plants with lots of DNA have more trouble tolerating pollution and extreme climatic extinctions—and they grow more slowly than plants with less DNA, because it takes so long to replicate their genome."

Typo?

[Anonymous Coward]

Dang it. I read it as "Largest Gnome Ever". My brain was already thinking: "WTF? Why would someone need a large desktop manager? Larger than what?" Then, I read the summary. All became clear.

Picture

[Glonoinha]

Since the article was light on visuals, I found a picture [rapha.cc] of the largest genome ever.

Obviously:

[Anonymous Coward]

"Does ist need a Multipass...?"

Thanks for the warning.

[Anonymous Coward]

The researchers warn however that big genomes tend to be a liability: plants with lots of DNA have more trouble tolerating pollution and extreme climatic extinctions—and they grow more slowly than plants with less DNA, because it takes so long to replicate their genome.

I'm glad they warned me. I was considering enlarging my genome, but now that I know the dangers I guess I'll pass.

Largest Genome ever

[cappp]

My girlfriend always said it's not the size of the genome that counts, its what you do with it.

Re:Can atheists refute one simple fact?

[norppalaho]

Please to be fucking off of my internet.

think i saw this before...

[Ubergrendle]

So does this plant run around asking for a MUL-TI-PASS? [imdb.com]

Re:Largest Genome ever

[frank_adrian314159]

Yeah, they always say that if you have a small genome.

Thats Big

[SuperTechnoNerd]

It must be made by Microsoft. Far too many lines of code. :)

Useless comparison

[halestock]

As tall as Big Ben? That hardly expresses how much data is packed into this genome. I need to know is how many Library of Congresses this genome is in order to fully comprehend the size.

congratulations, we've got a new Unit

[CAIMLAS]

Congratulations, we now have a new unit of measurement to join the myriad:

* Libraries of Congress
* Landmasses of Texas
* States of Massachusetts
* California Economies
* Lines of Code
* Man-Hours
* Kilobits per second

Welcome to the fold, Big Bens!

Re:Can atheists refute one simple fact?

[nitehawk214]

The answer is simple:w

Are you typing your slashdot comment with vi?

Re:Can atheists refute one simple fact?

[vjoel]

The earth was created by god. god was created by a giant frog. the giant frog was created by robotic jesus.

And all those lies were created by man, in particular, certain individuals who where trying to control the rest of the population.

You can't fool me, Mr. James. It's frogs all the way down.

Bloatware...

[SpaceAmoeba]

Clearly humans are more efficiently coded.

Re:Can atheists refute one simple fact?

[ooshna]

He didn't give birth to him. He is a mud man duh. Made out of dirt then God gave him CPR [biblegateway.com]. check your bible before you start talking nonsense.