Anatomy, D. discoideum
Dictyostelium discoideum life cycle causes the actual organism to have different anatomic structures. The organism starts off as a single celled organism, then due to chemical changes becomes a multi-cellular organism, consisting of many of the same cells. D. discoideum’s genome is roughly 34Mb big. The genome contains six chromosomes, each roughly 4-7Mb. Chromosome 2, the organisms largest chromosome, contains 8Mb, which represents 25% of its genome. The organism also has a 90kb extra chromosomal element, which it uses to contain mRNA, and a 55kb mitochondrial genome. Approximately 12,000 proteins are coded for within the D. discoideum genome.
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