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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volume of MCF-7 (breast cancer) cell | Human Homo sapiens | 1760 | µm^3 | 115154 | Wagner BA, Venkataraman S... |
| Size of large marine invertebrates | Invertebrates | sponge Xestospongia muta >7m^3: tube worm Riftia pachyptila >3m: jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai >3m | N/A | 113317 | Smith et al., Body size... |
| Fraction of sponges within a community in which the presence of photosynthetic symbionts can occur | Sponges phylum Porifera | ≤85 | % | 114511 | Blackall LL, Wilson B... |
| Protein concentrations in several nuclear bodies and surrounding nucleoplasm | African clawed frog Xenopus laevis | Cajal bodies 136: speckles 162: nucleoli 215: surrounding nucleoplasm 106 | mg/mL | 114203 | Uversky VN. Intrinsically... |
| O2 consumption determined experimentally | Sunflower Helianthus annuus | 1854 (±231) | nmol O2/h/embryo | 108766 | Alonso AP, Goffman FD... |
| Number of species that have been described as of 2015 | Protists | >100,000 | species | 114593 | Soyer-Gobillard MO, Dolan... |
| Fluctuation in water content of body during normal conditions | Human Homo sapiens | ~2.5L (i.e., ~3% of the total body weight) | Liters | 114382 | Duning T et al., Dehydration... |
| Number of animals in which the ability to walk on water has independently evolved | Metazoa animals | >1200 | species | 116189 | Mammola S, Michalik P... |
| Flux of water through an open MscL channel | Unspecified | ~4 | H2O/nanosecond | 107629 | Haswell ES, Phillips R... |
| Number of described species | Invertebrates | ~1.4 | million species | 117270 | Régnier C et al., Mass... |
| Pupation occurs sooner in caterpillars that are allowed to aggregate compared to isolated siblings by | Butterfly Small tortoiseshell Aglais urticae | 67 | hours | 113181 | Farmer CG. Parental Care:... |
| Average time for water to renew in rivers and to be completely replaced in the atmosphere | Biosphere | in rivers renewed once every 16 days: in the atmosphere completely replaced once every 8 days | days | 115098 | Pidwirny, M. (2006).... |
| List of non-human animals with publications on their genome projects as of 2012 | Metazoa animals | Table - link | Mb | 112712 | Luting Song & Wen Wang... |
| Summary of comparative diversity among animal taxa at various levels | Coral | Table - link | N/A | 114520 | Blackall LL, Wilson B... |
| Number of described species of beetles (Coleoptera, the most species-rich group of organisms on Earth) | Insect | ~360,000 | described species | 113121 | Bouchard P et al., F... |
| 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... |