A fully functional chromosome from the baker's yeast has been redesigned and produced by a team of scientists. The synthetic yeast chromosome, which has been stripped of some DNA sequences and other elements, is 272,871 base pairs long, representing about 2.5 percent of the 12-million-base-pair, said the researchers. As a eukaryote, a category that includes humans and other animals, the baker's yeast named saccharomyces cerevisiae has a very complex ...
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