Bộ gen
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| Organism type | Organism | Genome size  (base pairs) | Genome size  (base pairs) | Approx>  no. of genes | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Virus | Porcine circovirus type 1 | 1,759 | 1.8 kB |  | Smallest viruses replicating autonomously in eukaryotic cells. |
| Virus | Bacteriophage MS2 | 3,569 | 3.5 kB |  | First sequenced RNA-genome |
| Virus | SV40 | 5,224 | 5.2 kB |  |  |
| Virus | Phage Φ-X174 | 5,386 | 5.4 kB |  | First sequenced DNA-genome |
| Virus | HIV | 9,749 | 9.7 kB |  |  |
| Virus | Phage λ | 48,502 | 48.5 kB |  | Often used as a vector for the cloning of recombinant DNA.  |
| Virus | Megavirus | 1,259,197 | 1.3 MB |  | Until 2013 the largest known viral genome. |
| Virus | Pandoravirus salinus | 2,470,000 | 2.47 MB |  | Largest known viral genome. |
| Eukaryotic organelle | Human mitochondrion | 16,569 | 16.6 kB |  |  |
| Bacterium | Nasuia deltocephalinicola (strain NAS-ALF) | 112,091 | 112 kB | 137 | Smallest known non-viral genome. Symbiont of leafhoppers. |
| Bacterium | Carsonella ruddii | 159,662 | 160 kB |  | An endosymbiont of psyllid insects |
| Bacterium | Buchnera aphidicola | 600,000 | 600 kB |  | An endosymbiont of aphids |
| Bacterium | Wigglesworthia glossinidia | 700,000 | 700Kb |  | A symbiont in the gut of the tsetse fly |
| Bacterium – cyanobacterium | Prochlorococcus spp. (1.7 Mb) | 1,700,000 | 1.7 MB | 1,884 | Smallest known cyanobacterium genome. One of the primary photosynthesizers on Earth. |
| Bacterium | Haemophilus influenzae | 1,830,000 | 1.8 MB |  | First genome of a living organism sequenced, July 1995 |
| Bacterium | Escherichia coli | 4,600,000 | 4.6 MB | 4,288 |  |
| Bacterium – cyanobacterium | Nostoc punctiforme | 9,000,000 | 9 MB | 7,432 | 7432 open reading frames |
| Bacterium | Solibacter usitatus (strain Ellin 6076) | 9,970,000 | 10 MB |  |  |
| Amoeboid | Polychaos dubium ("Amoeba" dubia) | 670,000,000,000 | 670 GB |  | Largest known genome. (Disputed) |
| Plant | Genlisea tuberosa | 61,000,000 | 61 MB |  | Smallest recorded flowering plant genome, 2014. |
| Plant | Arabidopsis thaliana | 135,000,000 | 135 MB | 27,655 | First plant genome sequenced, December 2000. |
| Plant | Populus trichocarpa | 480,000,000 | 480 MB | 73,013 | First tree genome sequenced, September 2006 |
| Plant | Fritillaria assyriaca | 130,000,000,000 | 130 GB |  |  |
| Plant | Paris japonica (Japanese-native, pale-petal) | 150,000,000,000 | 150 GB |  | Largest plant genome known |
| Plant – moss | Physcomitrella patens | 480,000,000 | 480 MB |  | First genome of a bryophyte sequenced, January 2008. |
| Fungus – yeast | Saccharomyces cerevisiae | 12,100,000 | 12.1 MB | 6,294 | First eukaryotic genome sequenced, 1996 |
| Fungus | Aspergillus nidulans | 30,000,000 | 30 MB | 9,541 |  |
| Nematode | Pratylenchus coffeae | 20,000,000 | 20 MB |  |  Smallest animal genome known |
| Nematode | Caenorhabditis elegans | 100,300,000 | 100 MB | 19,000 | First multicellular animal genome sequenced, December 1998 |
| Insect | Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) | 175,000,000 | 175 MB | 13,600 | Size variation based on strain (175-180Mb; standard y w strain is 175Mb) |
| Insect | Apis mellifera (honey bee) | 236,000,000 | 236 MB | 10,157 |  |
| Insect | Bombyx mori (silk moth) | 432,000,000 | 432 MB | 14,623 | 14,623 predicted genes |
| Insect | Solenopsis invicta (fire ant) | 480,000,000 | 480 MB | 16,569 |  |
| Mammal | Mus musculus | 2,700,000,000 | 2.7 GB | 20,210 |  |
| Mammal | Pan paniscus | 3,286,640,000 | 3.3 GB | 20,000 | Bonobo -  estimated genome size 3.29 billion bp |
| Mammal | Homo sapiens | 3,000,000,000 | 3 GB | 20,000 | Homo sapiens genome size estimated at 3.2 Gbp in 2001 Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome |
| Bird | Gallus gallus | 1,043,000,000 | 1.0 GB | 20,000 |  |
| Fish | Tetraodon nigroviridis (type of puffer fish) | 385,000,000 | 390 MB |  | Smallest vertebrate genome known estimated to be 340 Mb – 385 Mb. |
| Fish | Protopterus aethiopicus (marbled lungfish) | 130,000,000,000 | 130 GB |  | Largest vertebrate genome known |