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How small can a genome be and still remain functional?

Henry Gee investigates

 

Tuesday April 24, 2001 The Guardian

 

Once upon a time, many hundreds of millions of years ago, a few bacteria – a committee of microbes – got together to form the first eukaryote, the first cell with an organised nucleus.

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Liquid

one of the three commonly recognized states in which matter occurs, i.e., that state, as distinguished from solid and gas, in which a substance has a definite volume but no definite shape.    1
 

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