A rare Japanese flower named Paris japonica sports an astonishing 149 billion base pairs, making it 50 times the size of a human genome—and the largest genome ever found. ... The genome of the new record-holder ... would be taller than Big Ben if stretched out end to end.[Emphasis added].
From Scienceshot: Biggest Genome Ever by , October 7, 2010 at Science/AAAS.
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