{"id":190536,"date":"2024-06-03T06:24:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/largest-genome-on-earth-revealed-and-its-a-big-surprise"},"modified":"2024-06-03T06:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T11:24:44","slug":"largest-genome-on-earth-revealed-and-its-a-big-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/largest-genome-on-earth-revealed-and-its-a-big-surprise","title":{"rendered":"Largest Genome on Earth Revealed, And It\u2019s a Big Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/largest-genome-on-earth-revealed-and-its-a-big-surprise2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A small, seemingly unremarkable fern that only grows on a remote Pacific island was on Friday crowned the Guinness World Record holder for having the largest genome of any organism on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The New Caledonian fern, <em>Tmesipteris oblanceolata<\/em>, has more than 50 times more DNA packed into the nucleus of its cells than humans do.<\/p>\n<p>If the DNA from one of the fern\u2019s cells \u2013 which are just a fraction of a millimetre wide \u2013 were unravelled, it would stretch out to 106 metres (350 feet), scientists said in a new study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small, seemingly unremarkable fern that only grows on a remote Pacific island was on Friday crowned the Guinness World Record holder for having the largest genome of any organism on Earth. The New Caledonian fern, Tmesipteris oblanceolata, has more than 50 times more DNA packed into the nucleus of its cells than humans do. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}