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Chromosomes are of different size but why do all chromosomes have similar GC percentage?
When I browsed NCBI I saw a pattern: even if the chromosome sizes, number of genes, and number of proteins are different, GC% in chromosomes tend to be similar. The examples are linked below.
Yeast,
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What is the advantage of circular genomes for bacteria and linear genomes for other organisms?
Bacterial are a great group of organisms. They have circular genomes and never went toward linear genomes while other organisms show the opposite strategy and don't have circular genomes (disregarding ...
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Would two species of yeast with similar genome sizes have the same number of genes or chromosomes?
Similar organisms generally have similar genome sizes. Given this, would two species of yeast have the same number of genes and chromosomes?
Edit: Fixed with thanks to @daniel-standage
