“species”

Genome size in bases

order of magnitude

 

 

 

Phi-X 174

5,386

103

Human mitochondrion

16,569

104

Mycoplasma genitalium

580,077

105

Thermoplasma acidophilum

1,564,906

106

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

12,156,320

107

Caenorhabditis elegans

100,258,171

108

Human

3,080,436,077

109

Table 1: Seven “species” and their “genome” sizes.