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    A circular chromosome is a chromosome in bacteria, archaea, mitochondria, and chloroplasts, in the form of a molecule of circular DNA, unlike the linear...
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  • arranged in multiple linear chromosomes. In contrast, most prokaryotic cells generally contain a singular circular chromosome. In general, the factors which...
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    DNA supercoil (redirect from Dna, circular)
    prokaryotes, plectonemic supercoils are predominant, because of the circular chromosome and relatively small amount of genetic material. In eukaryotes, DNA...
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    prokaryotes – bacteria and archaea – typically have a single circular chromosome. The chromosomes of most bacteria (also called genophores), can range in size...
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    to 1.2 μm wide. The reference genome consists of a 5,227,419 bp circular chromosome and two extrachromosomal DNA plasmids, pXO1 and pXO2, of 181,677...
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    Unlike cells of animals and other eukaryotes, bacterial cells contain circular chromosomes, do not contain a nucleus and rarely harbour membrane-bound organelles...
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    Gene (section Chromosomes)
    genomes on a single, large, circular chromosome. Similarly, some eukaryotic organelles contain a remnant circular chromosome with a small number of genes...
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    made up of a circular DNA molecule. Prokaryotes and eukaryotes have DNA genomes. Archaea and most bacteria have a single circular chromosome, however, some...
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  • Thumbnail for Chromosome conformation capture
    knowledge of the interacting regions. Chromosome conformation capture-on-chip (4C) (also known as circular chromosome conformation capture) captures interactions...
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    organized as several copies of a single, usually circular chromosome. This mitochondrial chromosome contains genes for redox proteins, such as those of...
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    Archaea usually have a single circular chromosome, but many euryarchaea have been shown to bear multiple copies of this chromosome. The largest known archaeal...
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    archaea) store their DNA only in the cytoplasm, in circular chromosomes. Within eukaryotic chromosomes, chromatin proteins, such as histones, compact and...
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    DNA molecule that long has been thought of as circular in shape, like that of the circular chromosome of prokaryotic cells—but now, perhaps not; (see...
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  • Thumbnail for Agrobacterium tumefaciens
    C58consists of a circular chromosome, two plasmids, and a linear chromosome. The presence of a covalently bonded circular chromosome is common to Bacteria...
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    membrane-bound organelles. The DNA of a prokaryotic cell consists of a single circular chromosome that is in direct contact with the cytoplasm. The nuclear region...
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    cell has a Circular chromosome (a single chromosome in the form of a closed loop), in contrast to the linear, usually multiple, chromosomes of eukaryote...
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    animals have a circular mitochondrial genome. Medusozoa and calcarea clades however include species with linear mitochondrial chromosomes. With a few exceptions...
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  • Thumbnail for Yeast artificial chromosome
    convert circular plasmid into a linear piece of DNA Insertion of DNA sequence to be amplified (up to 1000kb) Transformation yeast colony Chromosome III is...
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  • Thumbnail for Hi-C (genomic analysis technique)
    4C (chromosome conformation capture-on-chip/circular chromosome conformation capture), and 5C (chromosome conformation capture carbon copy). Hi-C comprehensively...
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  • Clitoridectomy (category Chromosomes)
    Autosome/Sex chromosome (or allosome or heterosome) Macrochromosome/Microchromosome Circular chromosome/Linear chromosome Extra chromosome (or accessory...
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    cytogenetics studying the mechanics and inheritance of broken and ring (circular) chromosomes of maize. During her cytogenetic work, McClintock discovered transposons...
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  • they have also been extracted from soil. P. freudenreichii has a circular chromosome about 2.5 Mb long. When Emmental cheese is being produced, P. freudenreichii...
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    envelope. The complex contains a single circular chromosome, a cyclic, double-stranded molecule of stable chromosomal DNA, in contrast to the multiple linear...
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  • Thumbnail for Corynebacterium diphtheriae
    Corynebacterium diphtheriae genome is a single circular chromosome that has no plasmids. These chromosomes have a high G+C content which is what contributes...
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  • chloroplasts and mitochondria have a single circular chromosome like bacteria instead of the linear chromosomes found in eukaryotes. However, many chloroplasts...
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  • single circular chromosome and that single chromosome contains 3,814,139 base pairs (bp). The fact that this microbe has a circular chromosome is a further...
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    free-living Actinomycetota sequenced to date, comprising a single circular chromosome of 2,501,097 bp. Micrococcus luteus was one of the early examples...
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    of some mitochondria and plastids are single circular DNA molecules similar to the circular chromosomes of bacteria; that the transport proteins called...
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    circular chromosomes, termination of replication occurs when the two replication forks meet each other on the opposite end of the parental chromosome...
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    prokaryotes have a single, circular chromosome, which is in contrast to eukaryotes, which typically have linear chromosomes. Nutritionally, prokaryotes...
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