• 2022-06-15
    Ingeneral,themorecomplexanorganism,the smallerisitsgenome.Butthisrelationshipdoesnotalwaysholdtrue. Thus, althoughgenenumberisroughlycorrelatedwithspeciescomplexity,thereisnosimplerelationshipbetween genenumber,chromosomenumber,andtotalgenomesize.