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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volume of egg | Ostrich Struthio camelus | 1338 | cm^3 | 105104 | C. Brooke Worth, Egg... |
| Rule of thumb for time it takes a metabolite (lactate) to diffuse across the cell | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 1e-3 | sec | 104674 | Calculated according... |
| Outdated value of largest known genome size - [dubious report, see comments. For updated value see BNID 117342] | Chaos chaos | 6.7e+11 | bp | 104470 | Parfrey LW, Lahr DJ,... |
| Protein production rate in haploid cell under fast growth conditions | Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae | 13000 (6500-19500) | Proteins/cell/sec | 104309 | von der Haar T. A qu... |
| Number of base pairs of telomeric DNA that are lost each replication cycle | Human Homo sapiens | 50-200 | base pairs | 104276 | Jegou T, Chung I, Heuvelman G... |
| Doubling time of fastest growing eukaryote | Yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus | 52 | min | 103707 | Groeneveld P, Stouthamer AH... |
| Number of neurons and glial cells in neocortex | Human Homo sapiens | 5e+10 | cells | 103185 | Pelvig DP, Pakkenberg H... |
| Turnover time of plant organic matter in the oceans | Biosphere | 2-6 | days | 102947 | Field CB, Behrenfeld MJ... |
| Average turnover time of plant organic matter on land | Biosphere | 19 | years | 102946 | Field CB, Behrenfeld MJ... |
| Carbonic Anhydrase II turnover rate | Human Homo sapiens | 1e+6 | 1/sec | 102663 | Lindskog S. Structure... |
| Ratio between number of microbial cells and number of animal cells in body | Human Homo sapiens | 10 (outdated, updated value is 1.3, see comments section) | unitless | 102391 | Savage DC. Microbial... |
| Number of cells in human body (see BNID 113006 for more updated value of 3x10^13) | Human Homo sapiens | ~1e+13 | cells/body | 102390 | Savage DC. Microbial... |
| Cell diameter (largest of any bacteria) | Bacteria Thiomargarita namibiensis | 180 (100-750) | µm | 102207 | Schulz HN, Brinkhoff T... |
| Number of skin cells (for total number of cells in body, 3e+13, see BNIDS 113005, 113006) | Human Homo sapiens | 1.1e+11 | cells | 101734 | Amazing numbers in biology... |
| Largest protein size - titin | Human Homo sapiens | 33423 | aa | 101653 | Stewart Scherer. A Short... |
| Lifespan of MDCK cell infected by influenza A | Influenza | 24 | hours | 101609 | Hornickova, Different... |
| Size (diameter) of most abundant cyanobacteria | Prochlorococcus | 0.6 (0.5-0.7) | µm | 101520 | Partensky F, Hess WR... |
| Characteristic heart rate | Pond mussel | 4-6 | beats per minute | 101518 | Amazing numbers in biology... |
| Diameter of the smallest eukaryote | Ostreococcus tauri | 1 | µm | 100494 | Palenik B, Grimwood J... |
| Number of olfactory receptor cells in the nose | Human Homo sapiens | 1.2e+7 | unitless | 100703 | http://faculty.washi... |