• Question: What is the smallest DNA in the world?

    Asked by Roscoe54 to Reka, Pip on 18 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Reka Nagy

      Reka Nagy answered on 18 Nov 2016:

      The organism with the smallest DNA in the world is a bacterium called Carsonella Ruddii, and its DNA only has 159662 DNA ‘letters’. In comparison, our own genome has 3 billion!

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