{"id":194717,"date":"2024-08-17T13:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T18:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/largest-animal-genome-sequenced-and-just-1-chromosome-is-the-size-of-the-entire-human-genome"},"modified":"2024-08-17T13:23:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T18:23:20","slug":"largest-animal-genome-sequenced-and-just-1-chromosome-is-the-size-of-the-entire-human-genome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/largest-animal-genome-sequenced-and-just-1-chromosome-is-the-size-of-the-entire-human-genome","title":{"rendered":"Largest animal genome sequenced \u2014 and just 1 chromosome is the size of the entire human genome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/largest-animal-genome-sequenced-and-just-1-chromosome-is-the-size-of-the-entire-human-genome3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have sequenced the largest known animal genome \u2014 and it\u2019s 30 times bigger than the human genome.<\/p>\n<p>The genome belongs to the South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), a primeval, air-breathing fish that \u201chops\u201d onto land from the water using weird, limb-like fins. The fish\u2019s DNA code expanded dramatically over the past 100 million years of evolutionary history, racking up the equivalent of one human genome every 10 million years, researchers found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have sequenced the largest known animal genome \u2014 and it\u2019s 30 times bigger than the human genome. The genome belongs to the South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa), a primeval, air-breathing fish that \u201chops\u201d onto land from the water using weird, limb-like fins. The fish\u2019s DNA code expanded dramatically over the past 100 million years [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194717","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}