Chapter 18.3, Problem 1TYK

Summary Introduction

Introduction:

The genome is the complete set of genetic materials present in a cell or an organism. Genome of many bacterial and archaeal species have been sequenced up to date. The length of bacterial and archaeal chromosomes is about few millions base pairs long and are usually circular. But linear chromosomes are also found in some species. bacterial and archaeal genomes are less complex compared to eukaryotic genome.