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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight of typical fly | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | ~10 | μN | 110030 | Dickinson MH, Götz KG.... |
| Size of U87 (glioblastoma) cell | Human Homo sapiens | 12 to 14 Table - link | μm | 108941 | EMD Millipore: Intro... |
| Maximum turnover numbers of some enzymes | Generic | Table - link | N/A | 105086 | Stryer et al, Biochemistry... |
| Correlation relating the OD600 to dry weight | Yeast Saccharomyces ellipsoideus | 11.25 (1 OD600 = 0.62 gDCW/L) | N/A | 111182 | Sohn SB, Kim TY, Lee JH... |
| Amount of haemoglobin in erythrocyte | Human Homo sapiens | 2.7e+8 | Copies/cell | 102740 | Pierigè F, Serafini S... |
| Gastric pH fasted and after meal ingestion | Human Homo sapiens | fasted 1.7: fed 5.0 | unitless | 110514 | McConnell EL, Basit AW... |
| Osmolarity of sea water | Biosphere | 1000 | mOsm/l | 100802 | Peter J. Russell,Stephen... |
| Cell diameter | HeLa cell line | 17.1 (±0.14 Table - link) | µm | 115568 | Borle AB. Kinetic analyses... |
| Diameter of smallest bacteria - mycoplasma | Bacteria Mycoplasma | 0.2-0.4 | µm | 104717 | Zhao H, Dreses-Werringloer U... |
| Isoelectric points of various bacteria | bacteria | Table - link | pH | 109121 | Harden VP, Harris JO.... |
| Resolution that can be obtained by transmission electron microscope | Generic | 0.1 | nm | 101469 | Lodish et al., Molecular... |
| Time for replication of chromosome in E. coli B/r with doubling time between 22 - 40 min | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 41 | Min | 105035 | Helmstetter CE. DNA synthesis... |
| Number of plant species | Plants | ~350,000 (representing an estimated 80–90% of the global total) | species | 113395 | Vellend M et al., Plant... |
| Cell cycle duration of HeLa cell | Human Homo sapiens | ~22 | Hours | 109393 | Posakony JW, England JM... |
| Lifespan of red blood cell | Human Homo sapiens | ~127 | days | 107875 | Shemin D, Rittenberg... |
| Genome size (smallest known RNA virus genome) | Hepatitis delta virus | 1.7 | Kb | 105570 | Huang CR, Lo SJ. Evolution... |
| Cell dry weight | Green algae Dunaliella salina | 153 (±3) | pg/cell | 106042 | Prieto A, Pedro Cañavate J... |
| Biomass yield on glucose | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 0.45 | g/g | 108126 | Hannes Link, Bernd Anselment... |
| Average pH of human tears | Human Homo sapiens | 7 (6.5 - 7.6) | pH units | 111613 | Abelson, Mark B., Ira... |
| LacZ gene size | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 3075 | base pairs | 102070 | Benno Muller-hill, 1996... |