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1. Imagine you are a scientistsequencing the genomes of organisms. You begin two newprojects, one sequencing the genome of an amoeba and the secondsequencing the genome of a cow. You discover that thegenome size (sometimes called C-value) of the amoeba is nearly 200Xas large as that of the cow.
a. Should this come as a surprise? Why orwhy not?
b. What characteristic of eukaryotic organismsexplains the variation in genome sizes?
c. What would your expectation be if you were tosequence the genome of a bacterium? Explain
1. Imagine you are a scientistsequencing the genomes of organisms. You begin two newprojects, one sequencing the genome of an amoeba and the secondsequencing the genome of a cow. You discover that thegenome size (sometimes called C-value) of the amoeba is nearly 200Xas large as that of the cow.
a. Should this come as a surprise? Why orwhy not?
b. What characteristic of eukaryotic organismsexplains the variation in genome sizes?
c. What would your expectation be if you were tosequence the genome of a bacterium? Explain
Keith LeannonLv2
28 Sep 2019
