The marine alga Ostreococcus tauri has an unusually high gene density for a eukaryote: 8000 genes in
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The marine alga Ostreococcus tauri has an unusually high gene density for a eukaryote: ∼8000 genes in an ∼13,000-kb genome. Assuming that intergene distances are negligible, what is the average size of an O. tauri gene? How does this compare to the average gene size in the prokaryote E. coli ?
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