“If you now take the genome size of 12 million bases, multiply that by the number of copies of the genome – so half a million – you get approximately 6,000 gigabytes or a billion DNA bases. By comparison, a diploid human genome size is approximately six gigabases. This means that our Thiomargarite it stores several orders of magnitude more DNA in itself than in the human cell, “explained Dr. Tanya Wake, also of Lawrence Berkeley.
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