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The gigantic genome of a type of fork fern smashes the human one in terms of size.
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A small, unassuming fern-like plant has something massive lurking within: the largest genome ever discovered, outstripping the human genome by more than 50 times1.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01567-7
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