微生物学英文教学课件：chapter3 Procaryotic Cell Structure and Function.ppt

3.4 Cellular genetic information Bacterial Chromosome Supercoiling and chromosome structure Chromosomal copy number Plasmids Micrograph of a bacterium showing the nucleoid region (green) within the cytoplasm where the bacterial chromosome occurs The bacterial chromosome is a circular DNA macromolecule except in Streptomyces where it is linear and Rhodobacter sphaffoides, which has two separate chromosomes. Bacterial chromosome The bacterial chromosome is usually a single covalently closed circular molecule. The term nucleoid is used to describe aggregated DNA in the prokaryotic cell. Range