“If you now take the genome size of 12 million bases, multiply it by the number of copies of the genome, so half a million, you end up with about 6,000 gigs, or a billion bases, of DNA. In comparison, a human diploid The genome is approximately six gigabytes in size, so this means that our Thiomargarita it stores several orders of magnitude more DNA in itself compared to a human cell, “said Dr. Tanja Woyke, also of Lawrence Berkeley.