, which is basically translated and abbreviated from
3 Questions: Petal Pushers - Scientists Say Japanese Plant Has World's Longest Genome. VOA, Oct. 8, 2010.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Three-Questions-Measuring-the-Worlds-Longest-Genome-104564589.html
My comment:
(a) In the English version: "And I guess what we're tying to understand is why does it have so much DNA? "
The word "tying" is a typo; it should be "trying."
(b) Press release: Kew scientists discover the largest genome of them all. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Oct. 5, 2010.
http://www.kew.org/news/kew-scientists-discover-largest-genome.htm
(i) If you are truly interested, read either English version of VOA OR the press release--but not both. the latter is mainly for biologists.
(ii) knock-on effect: "a secondary or incidental effect"
WordNet 3.0. Princeton University (2006).
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/knock-on+effect
(iii) The scientific paper is not available online free, whose citation is
Pellicer J, Fay MF and Leitch IJ, The largest eukaryotic genome of them all?
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 164:10-15 (September 2010).
(iv) Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew village, suburb of London; usually referred to as Kew Gardens; the largest collection of plants in the world; started in the latter half of the 17th century when Sir Henry Capel and his wife Dorothy lived on an estate known as Kew Farm. They designed small walled gardens on their estate inherited from Dorothy's father.
(c) marbled lungfish (Protopterus aethiopicus): canivore; found in Africa; 1 meter long; live for decades
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/fresh/Misc_PseudoBony/LeopardLungfish.php
(climbing out of water)
* lungfish have two lungs (usually) that is homologous to tetrapods' (tetrapods include amphibians, reptiles (snakes, too), birds and mammals). Fish have a swim bladder 鰾; some fish species can breathe air through a modified swim bladder, but this is a swim bladder nonetheless--not as sophiscated as a lung.