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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of hairs on human head | Human Homo sapiens | 90,000-150,000 | unitless | 101509 | Amazing numbers in biology... |
| Fraction of evolutionarily constrained sequences in the genome that have experimental evidence of function | Human Homo sapiens | 60 | % | 105748 | ENCODE Project Consortium... |
| Length of neuron from base of spine to big toe-longest cell in human body | Human Homo sapiens | ≤1 | meter | 104901 | Fletcher DA, Theriot... |
| Average duration of a single eye blink | Human Homo sapiens | 0.1-0.4 | sec | 100706 | http://faculty.washi... |
| Diameter of human hair | Human Homo sapiens | 17 to 181 link | μm | 106856 | The Physics Factbook™... |
| One unit of OD600 corresponds to a cell wet weight and a cell dry weight of | Bacteria Escherichia coli | Cell wet weight 1.7g/L: cell dry weight 0.39g/L | 109836 | Glazyrina J, Materne EM... | |
| Human body mean volume | Human Homo sapiens | 65.22 | Liters | 109718 | Bianconi E, et al., An... |
| Size of glucose molecule (open chain form) | Generic | 1.5 | nm | 106979 | Daniel Minoli, Nanotechnology... |
| Reaction times to sound, light and touch | Human Homo sapiens | mean auditory reaction times 140-160msec: touch 155msec: visual reaction times 180-200msec | msec | 110800 | [1] Galton, F. 1899.... |
| Weight of prostate at different ages | Human Homo sapiens | 40-49year old (yo) 28.2g: 50-59yo 30.8g: 60-70yo 35g: older than 75yo 46.2 | grams | 115555 | Tomasetti C, Li L, Vogelstein... |
| Cell concentration for culture with OD600 of 1 | Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae | 3e+7 | Cells/ml | 100986 | Audra Day, Colette Schneider... |
| Density and mass of each organ/tissue | Human Homo sapiens | Table - link | N/A | 110245 | International commission... |
| Genomic DNA amount in diploid cell | Human Homo sapiens | ~6 | pg/cell | 111206 | Russo Jose & Russo Irma... |
| Percent of protein in body that is collagen | Human Homo sapiens | 30 to 40 | % | 109730 | Hall, D. A. (ed) (1964)... |
| Overall mass of bacteria in the body | Human Homo sapiens | ~0.2 (~0.3% of overall body weight) | kg | 113003 | Sender R, Fuchs S, Milo... |
| Ratio of cell dry weight (g/L)/OD600 | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 0.36 | g/liter | 109837 | Ren Q, Henes B, Fairhead M... |
| Number of cells in colony | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 3.3e+9 (Table - link) | Cells/colony | 104458 | Mashimo K, Nagata Y, Kawata M... |
| Reaction time | Human Homo sapiens | simple reaction times averaged 0.220sec: recognition reaction times averaged 0.384sec | sec | 110799 | Laming, D. R. J. 1968.... |
| Total length of large and small intestines in body lengths | Ruminants | ox ~20 body lengths: sheep & goat 25 body lengths | body lengths | 112407 | Habel, R. E. (1975) in... |
| Number of blood and immune cells distributed throughout the human body | Human Homo sapiens | ~10^13 | cells/body | 117350 | Jason Cosgrove, Lucie... |