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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Half life of DNA in bones | Extinct New Zealand moa | 521 | years | 108267 | Morten E. Allentoft et al.... |
| Half-life of an individual cytosine residue in single-stranded DNA in solution at 37˚C and pH 7.4 | Unspecified | ~200 | years | 112976 | Lindahl T. Instability... |
| Life cycle from egg to adult | Alderfly Sialis lutaria | usually ~2: at high altitude in both Switzerland and the French Pyrenees 3: in Denmark 1 | year | 117247 | Elliott, J. M. "Temp... |
| Life cycle length | Magicicada cassini | 17 | years | 101488 | David C. Marshall, John... |
| Life cycle length | Magicicada tredecassini | 13 | years | 101490 | David C. Marshall, John... |
| Science media collection containing video connected to Exploring with Microscopes | Generic | Web - link | N/A | 111133 | New Zealand Science Learning... |
| Fraction of bivalves that went extinct during the end-Cretaceous event | Mollusk Bivalvia spp. | ~49 | % | 112754 | Barnosky AD et al., Has... |
| Number of species going extinct per day in the sixth (anthropocene) extinction | Biosphere | ≤150 | species/day | 117271 | Kaebnick GE, Jennings... |
| Fraction of the ≈10,000 presently known bird species that have become extinct since A.D. 1500 | Birds | ≈1.3 | % | 116938 | Pimm S, Raven P, Peterson A... |
| Fraction of number of individual animals that once shared the Earth with humans that are extinct | Biosphere | ≤50 | % of individual animals | 117268 | Ceballos G, Ehrlich PR... |
| Number of new mutations per generation | Human Homo sapiens | 60 | new mutations/generation | 110293 | Kondrashov A. Genetics:... |
| New acetylcholine receptors-distribution and turnover | Mouse Mus musculus | Table - link | N/A | 111078 | Salpeter MM, Harris R.... |
| Fraction of the four billion species estimated to have evolved on the Earth over the last 3.5 billion years that are extinct | Biosphere | ~99 | % | 112752 | Barnosky AD et al., Has... |
| Number of bird species that became extinct in tropical oceania islands in approximately 2000 years, since human colonization | Biosphere | 1800 | bird species | 117273 | Khan S et al., Overview... |
| Time for assembly of new cell contacts | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | 6 - 15 | min | 112073 | Classen AK, Anderson KI... |
| Number of mammals that have gone extinct during the sixth mass extinction that started in the Late Pleistocene | Biosphere | >300 | mammal species | 117255 | Davis M, Faurby S, Svenning... |
| Fraction of the 1.9 million known recent species that are recorded as extinct | Biosphere | 0.04 ((799 species)) | % | 117269 | Régnier C et al., Mass... |
| Doubling time in a new-born (human) baby | Bacteria Klebsiella oxytoca | 19.7 | hours | 115548 | Gibson B, Wilson DJ, Feil E... |
| Distribution of insects visiting flowers in the Australian Alps | Insect | Diptera 62.3%: Hymenoptera 30.8%: Lepidoptera 11.2%: Coleoptera 1.9% | % | 115232 | Catherine Marina Pickering... |
| Survival time of tide-induced submergence (under water) | Spider (family Desidae) Desis marina | ≤19 | days | 116212 | Mammola S, Michalik P... |