id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8287 Life - Wikipedia .html text/html 17984 3208 63 Estimates range from 8 million to 100 million,[116][117] with a more narrow range between 10 and 14 million,[116] but it may be as high as 1 trillion (with only one-thousandth of one percent of the species described) according to studies realized in May 2016.[118][119] The total number of related DNA base pairs on Earth is estimated at 5.0 x 1037 and weighs 50 billion tonnes.[120] In comparison, the total mass of the biosphere has been estimated to be as much as 4 TtC (trillion tons of carbon).[121] In July 2016, scientists reported identifying a set of 355 genes from the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) of all organisms living on Earth.[122] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8287.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8287.txt