Tall Order: Loblolly Pine Genome Is largest Ever Sequenced
Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 17:20
in Biology & Nature
Geneticists have finally assembled the genome of the huge loblolly pine. With more than 23 billion base pairs, it's seven times the size of a human's, and the largest one ever sequenced. But what makes its genetic code, like the tree itself, so big?