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Re:When Are the Intelligent Aliens? by Gravityloss on Sunday June 30, 2013 @08:06PM (#5967897)
It's a logarithmic graph. It doesn't go to zero. It just goes to 10^0 which is 1. And in this case one billion units of whatever. -1 is 100 million etc..
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Re:When Are the Intelligent Aliens? by wizeman on Sunday June 30, 2013 @10:40PM (#5968328)
Given that the axis in question represents genome size, I'd guess "bp" stands for "base pairs", not a billion units of something...
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