What is a genome ? Lisboa 2001
   
 


Definitions:

(1). the complete gene complement of an organism, contained in a set of chromosomes (in eukaryotes), in a single chromosome (in bacteria), or in a DNA or RNA molecule (in viruses).

(2). the full set of genes in an individual, either haploid or diploid. In a human, the haploid set contains about 3 billion base pairs of DNA and 30,000-100,000 genes.

(3). the genome is the entire DNA content of a cell, including all the genes and all the intergenic regions.




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