BIO130H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Naegleria, Genome Size, Mitochondrion
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One maternal and one paternal genome = you. Genomes can come in all different sizes. Mitochondrion doesn"t have all the genes it needs anymore, they are now found in nucleus. Comparing genome sizes the sequencing of many genomes. Advances in automated sequencing have made possible. Prokaryotic genomes in hours, eukaryotic genomes in days. An organism"s complexity and size are not reflected in genome size. Patients go swimming, amoeba goes up nose. Found in water: fatal, found in florida. Some amoeba have 670 billion base pairs in genome. Has revealed that large numbers of gene sequences are conserved between. Studies leading to wide range of benefits including human health, Biotechnology, agriculture, basic biology: 60% of human genes can be found in fruit fly, also very easy to work with. Only 1. 5% of your genome encodes protein. Introns: actual code, the 1. 5% mentioned above. Long-interspersed nuclear elements: called lines, stretch of 1000 nucleotides repeated again and again.
