BIO 402502 Advanced Cell amp; Developmental Biology I.ppt

* * * * BIO 402/502 Advanced Cell Developmental Biology I Section IV: Dr. Berezney Lecture 1 The Cell Nucleus and its Genome Organization of Eukaryotic Genome Contrasting features of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes with respect to size, percent of coding region and number of genes Renaturation (Hybridization) of DNA DNA renaturation plots for prokaryotic versus eukaryotic DNA demonstrate that: prokaryotic DNA is a unique sequence of DNA whereas eukaryotic DNA is composed of highly repetitive, moderately repetitive and unique sequences. Simple sequence DNA such as satellite DNAs are