Prokaryotic Chromosomes

一个有机体的基因组包含了所有的genes of that organism. Gene is a distinct sequence of nucleotides forming part of a chromosome, the order of which determines the order of monomers in a polypeptide or nucleic acid molecule. Thus a protein-coding gene is defined as a region of DNA that encodes a single polypeptide or a set of closely related polypeptides. Genes are contained in chromosomes. Chromosomes are thus structures within cells that contain hundreds to thousands …Read more