The DNA Content of Various Cells
Pokaryotic
Escherichia coli 4 x 106
Eukaryotic
Saccharomyces cerevisiae 1.35 x 107
Drosophila melanogaster 1.65 x 108
Homo sapiens 2.9 x 109
Zea mays 5.0 x 109
Organism
Number of
Base pairs
Human
Genome: 3
x109 bps
Human
Gene (5% of the genome): 100,000 genes
Gene
Products (2% of the gene): 20,000 gene products