
Gene Organization in
prokaryotes and
a range of eukaryotes
Note
that prokaryotic bacteria lack introns. The human genome is
about
ten-fold larger than that of Drosophila.
However, humans do not have a substantially larger number of
coding genes than Drosophila: humans genes are more spread out
in the chromosomes, and
typically have a higher proportion of introns.
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Figure ©2002 by
Griffiths et al.;
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text material ©2011 by Steven M. Carr