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| Property | Organism | Value | Units | ID | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrogen fixation rate of endophytic diazotrophs associated with sugar cane | prokaryote | 5000 | mg N/m^2/yr | 110429 | Galloway et al., Nitrogen... |
| Nitrogen supplied from guano deposits on arid islands and evaporite nitrate deposits in South America | Biosphere | ~0.2 | Tg N/yr | 110430 | Galloway et al., Nitrogen... |
| Current estimates of reactive nitrogen (Nr) creation by lightning | Biosphere | 3 - 10 | Tg N/yr | 110431 | Galloway et al., Nitrogen... |
| Elongation rate of flagella (in in vitro measurements) | Bacteria Salmonella sp. | 0.16 | µm/min | 116399 | Ng SY, Zolghadr B, Driessen... |
| Diameter of cell | Bacteria Thiovulum spp. | 9 – 18 | μm | 110078 | Schulz HN, Jorgensen... |
| Genome size | Bacteria Bacillus subtilis | 4.31e+6 | bp | 111386 | National Center for ... |
| Generation time | Spirochete Treponema pallidum | 29 | hours | 102398 | Brock TD. Microbial growth... |
| Global methane emissions from natural sources | Biosphere | 127-282 | Tg/year | 104550 | Liu Y, Whitman WB. Metabolic... |
| Global methane emissions from anthropogenic sources | Biosphere | 267-478 | Tg/year | 104551 | Liu Y, Whitman WB. Metabolic... |
| Global methane emissions from anthropogenic energy generation | Biosphere | 75-110 | Tg/year | 104552 | Liu Y, Whitman WB. Metabolic... |
| Total global methane emissions | Biosphere | 500-600 | Tg/year | 104553 | Liu Y, Whitman WB. Metabolic... |
| Smallest known enzyme | Unspecified | ~10 (~100aa) | kDa | 108020 | Tiessen A, Pérez-Rodríguez P... |
| Number of subunits that RNA Polymerase core enzyme consists of | Various | bacterial 5 subunits: archaeal and eukaryotic 10 - 20 subunits | subunits | 111557 | Minakhin L et al., Bacterial... |
| Mean sizes of peptides generated and number of cuts made in a single polypeptide chain by proteasomes in rabbit muscle and Thermoplasma | Various | Table - link | N/A | 109952 | Kisselev AF, Akopian TN... |
| Concentration of prokaryotes in termite gut | Termite Mastotermes darwiniensis | 5.5e+9 | Cells/ml | 104951 | Berchtold M, Chatzinotas A... |
| Genome size | dog | 2.41e+9 | bp | 111389 | National Center for ... |
| Molecular mass of RNA Polymerase core enzyme | Various | bacterial ≈0.35 MDa: archaeal and eukaryotic 0.4–0.8 MDa | MDa | 111558 | Minakhin L et al., Bacterial... |
| Total bacteria biomass on Earth (≈15% of the global biomass, predominantly located in deep subsurface environments) | Biosphere | ≈70 | gigatons of carbon (Gt C) | 115272 | Bar-On YM, Phillips R... |
| Motility parameters of cells | Bacteria Escherichia coli | Table - link | N/A | 109417 | Fukuoka H, Sowa Y, Kojima S... |
| Smallest cell diameter | bacteria | 0.2 - 0.3 | μm | 110072 | Schulz HN, Jorgensen... |