The New York Times reports
A fern from a Pacific island carries 50 times as much DNA as humans do.
Tmesipteris oblanceolata has the largest known genome on Earth. As the researchers described in a study published on Friday, the fern’s cells contain more than 50 times as much DNA as ours do.
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