"Robert Karl Stonjek"  wrote in message
>
> Comment:
> Wheat has considerably more DNA then humans (16 Billion base pairs >
compared to human's 3 billion).
>
Wheat (Triticum aevestium) is actually a hexaploid (three sets of diploid
chromosomes) so effective genome size should be divided by three.

That still makes it considerably bigger than the human genome.
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