The C-value Paradox
An onion carries five times more DNA than you do. A single-celled amoeba carries a hundred times more. Nobody expected that.
1971 (named), 2001 (renamed the C-value enigma)17 min read
American molecular biology
Charles A. Thomas Jr.
1927 – 2015
American molecular biologist who worked on the physical organisation of chromosomal DNA. His 1971 review in the Annual Review of Genetics named the C-value paradox: the amount of DNA in a genome bears no reliable relation to the apparent complexity of the organism carrying it.