Which of the following explains why prokaryotes have a bigger gene-to-genome size ratio compared to eukaryotes? A. Prokaryotic genome contains multiple promoters and repressors that control of a single gene. B. Prokaryotic genome is completely devoid of non-coding sequences. C. Prokaryotic genome contains multiple genes that are under the control of a common promoter and repressor. D. Prokaryotic genome contains one promoter region for each gene. 2. Which of the following can explain why eukaryotes have smaller gene-to-genome size ratio compared to prokaryotes? A. Genome size do not correlate with complexity in eukaryotes. B. The percentage of genes is inversely correlated with genome size in eukaryotes. C. Eukaryotic genome contains a lot of coding sequences. D. Eukaryotic genome contains a lot of non-coding sequences.

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1. Which of the following explains why prokaryotes have a bigger gene-to-genome size ratio compared to eukaryotes?

A. Prokaryotic genome contains multiple promoters and repressors that control of a single gene.
B. Prokaryotic genome is completely devoid of non-coding sequences.
C. Prokaryotic genome contains multiple genes that are under the control of a common promoter
and repressor.
D. Prokaryotic genome contains one promoter region for each gene.

2. Which of the following can explain why eukaryotes have smaller gene-to-genome size ratio compared to prokaryotes?
A. Genome size do not correlate with complexity in eukaryotes.
B. The percentage of genes is inversely correlated with genome size in eukaryotes.
C. Eukaryotic genome contains a lot of coding sequences.
D. Eukaryotic genome contains a lot of non-coding sequences.

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