Table 1: Genome Size and Number of Protein-Coding Genes for a Select Handful of Species
| Species and Common Name | Estimated Total Size of Genome (bp)* | Estimated Number of Protein-Encoding Genes* |
| Saccharomyces cerevisiae (unicellular budding yeast) | 12 million | 6,000 |
| Trichomonas vaginalis | 160 million | 60,000 |
| Plasmodium falciparum (unicellular malaria parasite) | 23 million | 5,000 |
| Caenorhabditis elegans (nematode) | 95.5 million | 18,000 |
| Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) | 170 million | 14,000 |
| Arabidopsis thaliana (mustard; thale cress) | 125 million | 25,000 |
| Oryza sativa (rice) | 470 million | 51,000 |
| Gallus gallus (chicken) | 1 billion | 20,000-23,000 |
| Canis familiaris (domestic dog) | 2.4 billion | 19,000 |
| Mus musculus (laboratory mouse) | 2.5 billion | 30,000 |
| Homo sapiens (human) | 2.9 billion | 20,000-25,000 |
* There may be other estimates in the literature, but most estimates approximate those listed here.
http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/eukaryotic-genome-complexity-437
