This non-coding DNA, sometimes referred to as "junk DNA," has various functions, such as regulating gene expression, maintaining chromosome structure, and playing a role in evolution. The size of an ...

This discrepancy between genome size and complexity remains clear more than half a century later, with genome sizes now available for nearly 9,000 species of animals and plants. In prokaryotes ...

As shown in Table 1 (adapted from Van Straalen & Roelofs, 2006), there is no clear correspondence between genome size and number of protein-coding genes—another indication that the number of ...