2006), there is no clear correspondence between genome size and number of protein-coding genes—another indication that the number of genes in a eukaryotic genome reveals little about organismal ...

How do bacteria, lacking a nucleus, organize and pack their genome into the cell ... the main difference between these organisms is that eukaryotic cells contain membrane-bound organelles ...

Although archaeal genes make up a small fraction of the nuclear genome, the genes that play roles ... Even as the number of sequenced archaeal and bacterial genomes continues to increase, offering new ...

Transposons, or "jumping genes" – DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another – are key to bacterial ...

Scientists propose that the eukaryotic branch of this family tree formed when two prokaryotes ... The team also found that, on average, Asgard archaea have a comparable number of defense systems per ...

Transposons, or "jumping genes"—DNA segments that can move from one part of the genome to another—are key to bacterial ...