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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wingspan of Meganeura spp., extinct flying insects ~3 times the size of the largest flying insects today | Insect | >65 - 71 | cm | 113319 | Smith et al., Body size... |
| Number of new virions produced daily within an infected individual | RNA viruses | 10^10 to 10^11 | Virions/day | 106249 | Anderson JP, Daifuku R... |
| Number of new protein families that evolved in the prokaryote-eukaryote transition | Various | 3000 | unitless | 105798 | Lane N, Martin W. The... |
| Ratio of new mutations passed on by fathers compared to mothers | Human Homo sapiens | ≈4 | unitless | 110290 | Callaway E. Fathers bequeath... |
| Percent that new pole cell is larger than old pole cell | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 0.9 (±0.1) | % larger | 111489 | Stewart EJ, Madden R... |
| Fraction of the available energy in radiation converted into new plant growth | Plants | 2 - 4 | % | 110843 | Kirschbaum MUF (2011)... |
| Fraction of all dentate gyrus granule cells that are new (defined as <8 weeks of age) neurons | Rat Rattus norvegicus | at 3 months old >25%: at 12 months old 5% | % of all dentate gyrus granule cells | 117231 | Josselyn SA, Frankland... |
| Number of new cells generated in the adult rat dentate gyrus each day | Rat Rattus norvegicus | 9000 | Cells/day | 106090 | Cameron HA, McKay RD.... |
| Energy released in enzymatic formation of a new glycosidic bond in the polysaccharide chain | Fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe | 2.3E-20 (14kJ/mol) | Joules | 108261 | Proctor SA, Minc N, Boudaoud... |
| Percent slower growth rate of old pole progeny cell compared to new pole cell | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 2.2 (±0.1) | % slower | 111485 | Stewart EJ, Madden R... |
| Percent less offspring biomass produced by old pole cell compared to new pole cell | Bacteria Escherichia coli | 3.1 (±0.3) | % less biomass | 111486 | Stewart EJ, Madden R... |
| Density of granular starch | Wheat Triticum aestivum | ~1.5 | g/cm^3 | 112353 | H. N. Dengate, D. W.... |
| Lengthening of sugar chain in enzymatic formation of a new glycosidic bond in the polysaccharide chain | Fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe | 0.5 | nm | 108262 | Proctor SA, Minc N, Boudaoud... |
| Extinction rate | Birds | 132 | extinction/million species/year (E/MSY) | 113446 | Pimm SL et al., The ... |
| The characteristic time for new mutations to drift to high frequency under neutral evolution in the human population | Human Homo sapiens | ~1e+6 | years | 110201 | Sabeti PC, Schaffner SF... |
| Average turnover rate of cells in breast | Human Homo sapiens | 84.5 | days | 115554 | Tomasetti C, Li L, Vogelstein... |
| Approximate density of starch | Wheat Triticum aestivum | dry granules 1.6: air-equilibrated granules 1.5: hydrated granules 1.3 | g/cm^3 | 112354 | H. N. Dengate, D. W.... |
| Time it would take the ~5,400 current mammal species to evolve enough new history to restore net phylogenetic diversity (PD) to preanthropogenic levels | Biosphere | ~500,000 | years | 117257 | Davis M, Faurby S, Svenning... |
| Speed of the power-amplified predatory strike and power output released | Spider (family Mecysmaucheniidae) Zearchaea sp. | speed 0.00012 sec: power output released 60,000 W/kg | N/A | 116209 | Mammola S, Michalik P... |
| 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... |