Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.xs3.de!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: John Harshman Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Largest animal genome 91 billion base-pairs. Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:45:18 -0700 Organization: University of Ediacara Lines: 12 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: <6oednUsOHJWmDlr7nZ2dnZfqlJydnZ2d@giganews.com> 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="85476"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id AEF7C22986F; Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:46:01 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6874E22978C for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:45:59 -0400 (EDT) by moderators.individual.net (Exim 4.98) for talk-origins@moderators.isc.org with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1shFd0-00000002wTf-43XL; Thu, 22 Aug 2024 23:45:59 +0200 by egress-mx.phmgmt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C235760CE0 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:42:56 +0000 (UTC) by serv-4.ord.giganews.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E47344040A for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:45:19 -0500 (CDT) by serv-4.i.ord.giganews.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id 47MLjIce071643; Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:45:18 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: serv-4.i.ord.giganews.com: news set sender to poster@giganews.com using -f X-Path: news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:45:18 +0000 Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Original-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3185 On 8/22/24 2:18 PM, Ernest Major wrote: > 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. > And there are protists that beat them all.