A. Define a gene

B. Consider two different species of yeast that have similar genome sizes. Is it likely that they contain the same number of genes? A similar number of chromosomes?

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A. A gene is a segment of DNA that stores the information required to specify the particular sequence found in a protein (or, in some cases, the sequence of a structural or catalytic RNA).
B. A similar genome size indicates relatively little about the number of genes and virtually nothing about the number of chromosomes. For example, the commonly studied yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Sc) and Schizosaccharomyces pombe (Sp) are separated by roughly 400 million years of evolution, and both have a genome of 14 million base pairs. Yet Sc has 6500 genes packaged into 16 chromosomes and Sp has 4800 genes in 3 chromosomes.

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