Sentences with phrase «comparing genome sizes»
Not exact matches
They then compared genetic sequences with the genome of the still common domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and, based on those comparisons, estimate they captured between 57 and 75 percent of the passenger pigeon's genetics (assuming that its genome was roughly the same size as its relative's).
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The cost difference is due, in part, to the smaller scale of the MyMicrobes operation, and in part to the size of the bacterial genome, which Bork says contains around 5 billion letters of DNA, compared to the 3.3 billion in the human genome.
«Once we'd dealt with the tiny size of the bone samples, the highly degraded state of the DNA, and the lack of any similar genomes to compare to, the analysis was a piece of cake,» said Natural History Museum scientist Dr. Selina Brace.
When compared with the human genome it was found that the two genomes were of similar size and almost every gene in the human genome has a counterpart in the mouse.