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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| genome size | Bread wheat Triticum aestivum | 16800 | MBp | 102713 | Plant Molecular Biology... |
| Number of genes | Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans | 22901 | Unitless | 100313 | Choi J, Newman AP. A... |
| Number of genes | Thale cress Arabidopsis thaliana | 26990 | unitless | 100473 | Feng J, Naiman DQ, Cooper... |
| Genome Size | Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae | 1.21e+7 | Base pairs | 100459 | Goffeau A et al., Life... |
| Number of chromosomes (most of any known animal) | Red vizcacha rat Tympanoctomys barrerae | 102 | chromosomes | 110010 | Gallardo MH, González CA... |
| Number of predicted protein-coding genes | Physcomitrella patens | 27949 | genes | 111377 | Lang D, Zimmer AD, Rensing SA... |
| Number of chromosomes in genome of most conifers | Plants | 12 (2n = 24 Table - link) | chromosomes | 113646 | Nystedt B et al., The... |
| Euchromatic genome Size | Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster | 1.2e+8 | Base pairs | 100199 | Adams MD et al, The genome... |
| Estimated number of genes | Corn Zea mays | 42,000-56,000 | unitless | 105521 | Haberer et al., Structure... |
| Number of different linear and circular plasmids (other than linear chromosome) | Bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi | ≥17 | different plasmids/cell | 111257 | Fraser et al., Genomic... |
| Fraction of cell divisions in which the endogenous 2μ plasmid is lost | Budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae | <0.01 | % | 113501 | Gnügge R, Rudolf F. ... |
| Number of genes | Bacteria Caulobacter crescentus | 3767 (Table - link) | unitless | 105498 | Nierman et al., Complete... |
| Number of genes | Sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus | 23300 | unitless | 105518 | Sea Urchin Genome Sequencing... |
| Genome sizes and gene numbers of various eukaryotes | Eukaryotes | Table - link | N/A | 106967 | Lynch M, Conery JS. The... |
| GC content of eukaryotes | Eukaryotes | Table - link | % | 102523 | Zhou Y, Bizzaro JW, Marx... |
| Number of proteins in ribosome | Various | Database - link | N/A | 102480 | Ribosomal Protein Gene... |
| Transposable element contents of some model organisms | Various | Table - link | N/A | 103848 | Heikki Vilen, Mu in vitro... |
| GC content of eukaryotes in different parts of genome | Various | Table - link | N/A | 102524 | Zhou Y, Bizzaro JW, Marx... |
| Genome sequence data and data validation information for 19 eukaryotes | Eukaryotes | Table - link | N/A | 111923 | Xu L, Chen H, Hu X, Zhang R... |
| Metazoan genome size and gene number | Various | Table - link | N/A | 103651 | C.U.M. Smith Biology... |