Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: Ernest Major <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Largest animal genome 91 billion base-pairs. Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 22:18:28 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 13 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: <6oednUsOHJWmDlr7nZ2dnZfqlJydnZ2d@giganews.com> Reply-To: {$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="84705"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:u7s8MdrMyEXO1bcMA6bpk8QuRjQ= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 91DEC22986F; Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:18:34 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 69F3022978C for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:18:32 -0400 (EDT) id D57A9872A8; Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:18:32 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay.zaccari.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A4E417FC26 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:18:32 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mod-relay.zaccari.net A4E417FC26 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-256) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.eternal-september.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D70F5F829 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:18:29 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: name/1D70F5F829; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=meden.demon.co.uk id B3735DC01A9; Thu, 22 Aug 2024 23:18:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Injection-Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 23:18:28 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <6oednUsOHJWmDlr7nZ2dnZfqlJydnZ2d@giganews.com> X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+OCVK+WCdlDJrHUDwZ4PPWV6UXJF6CvkwPLXJwNaf5Y74eKaO4hV5RPgUklqe7B8Z2823NsRsJ+g== Content-Language: en-GB FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 smtp.eternal-september.org Bytes: 3138 On 22/08/2024 20:36, John Harshman wrote: >> Are there some other organisms that have really long genomes >> besides some lobe finned fish and some lungfish and some frogs? > > Well, ferns are famous. If science hasn't moved on the current record holder is a fern (Tmesipteris oblanceolata). Paris japonica (a petaloid monocot) also beats lungfish. -- alias Ernest Major