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Fraction of CpG sites that are methylated Mammals 60 - 90 % 112845 Tucker KL (June 2001)....
Fraction of all angiosperms (flowering plants) that are asterids and rosids Plants asterids 41% rosids 24 % 116900 Arrivault S et al., ...
Fraction of the ≈300,000 described flowering plant species that are threatened Plants 16 % 116939 Pimm S, Raven P, Peterson A...
Fraction of wildtype cells that are anucleate Bacteria Escherichia coli <0.03% % 115597 Young KD. The selective...
Fraction of all transcription factors that are homeodomain (HD) proteins Metazoa animals ~15% - 30 % of all transcription factors 116967 Bürglin TR, Affolter...
Number of described and undescribed animal species Biosphere described ~1,900,000: undescribed 11,000,000 species 113443 Pimm SL et al., The ...
Estimates of the biosphere's heterotrophic biomass Biosphere Table - link Mt C 109600 Vaclav Smil, The Earth's...
Fraction of proteome that is membrane proteins Eukaryotes 31% C. elegans: 21% E. coli: 20% D. melanogaster % 106431 Almén MS, Nordström KJ...
Genome size, chromosome number, average gene length and other genomic features of several organisms Various Table - link N/A 105369 Derelle E. et al., Genome...
Water permeabilities of cells and membranes from plants and animals Eukaryotes Table - link 10^–4cm/sec 110401 Maurel C. Aquaporins...
Time required to digest grass Horse Equus caballus ~72 hrs 112505 Letarov A, Kulikov E....
Fraction of radiation balance that is transmitted to leaf Plants <1 % 113221 Körner C (2013) Plan...
Phylogenetic relationships between major groups of extant green plants Plants Figure - link Mya 113549 Ishizaki K. Evolution...
Fraction of protein coding genes that are proteins from the protein kinase family Plants ~5 (about half are membrane-bound receptor-like protein kinases) % 113550 Haruta M, Sussman MR....
Fraction of insects collected from white or yellow insect traps out of five different coloured traps (white, yellow, orange, red and purple) Plants 66 % of all individual insects collected from traps that are white or yellow 115231 Catherine Marina Pickering...
Fraction of diversity in GMLs (Genome-wide Methylation Levels-a measure of the percentage of all cytosines that are methylated) that is accounted for by variation in genome size Plants ~14 % of diversity in GMLs 113096 Vidalis A, Živković D...
Fraction of proteins in glycosome that are glycolytic enzymes Protozoa kinetoplastid Trypanosoma spp. parasite Trypanosoma brucei >90%: trypanosomes living in the tsetse fly ~40-50% % of proteins that are glycolytic proteins 113107 Michels PA, Moyersoen J...
Fraction of flatus that is carbon dioxide Human Homo sapiens 5 - 50 % 113401 Rowland I et al., Gut...
Estimated number of species Insect 5,000,000 - 6,000,000 species 113444 Pimm SL et al., The ...
Estimated number of marine species Biosphere primary source [9] 2.2±0.18: primary source [12] 0.7 - 1.0 million species 113445 Pimm SL et al., The ...