A fern has entered the file books for having extra DNA than some other residing factor.
The plant’s genetic materials, or genome, would attain about 100 metres when unravelled, outstripping Huge Ben.
Scientists say it is a “loopy” quantity of DNA for a tiny plant that most individuals would stroll by with out noticing.
“It is the largest genome that has ever been found out of all organisms that dwell on this planet,” Dr Ilia Leitch of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, advised BBC Information.
“How does it perform? How does it survive with that a lot DNA in it?”