Chapter 24.1, Problem 2TYK

Summary Introduction

Introduction:

Microbiome is consisted with all the genetic material of entire collection of microbes in a specific environment. Species of archaea, bacteria, protists and fungi are considered to be microorganisms. Microbiomes are complex systems. Biologists evaluate complexity of microbiomes either by analyzing genes that encodes ribosomal RNA or by analyzing whole metagenomic sequencing. But these analyses do not give information about which genes are transcribed and translated. So, mRNA, proteins and metabolites should be analyzed to obtain additional information about microbiome function.