Published in Quintessence of Dust
Author Stephen Matheson

Well, no sampler last week, so here are the answers to the last DNA content quiz.Top row: the beluga whale has a slightly larger genome than the brine shrimp (3.29 vs. 2.91).Second row: the damselfly, in all its beauty and intricacy, sports a genome half the size of that of the woodlouse hunter (1.50 vs. 3.00).Third row: the aardvark needs more than twice as much DNA as the American cockroach (5.87 vs. 2.72). Ah, now that must be due to "degree