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were once believed to account for a biomass comparable to that of plants, more recent research indicates they represent a much smaller proportion. The total number of DNA base pairs on Earth - sometimes used as a possible approximation of global biodiversity - has been estimated at , with a mass of around 50 billion tonnes. By the year 2020, the mass of human-made materials or anthropogenic mass, defined as "the mass embedded in

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