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Chapter 17.3, Problem 1R
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The role of a class of proteins found in the Caenorhabditis elegans, which has a fewer counterpart in the yeast.
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Yeast is a single-celled eukaryotic organism with a genome size of 12.2 Mb (Million base pairs) and it has 6,275 protein-coding genes. Nematode or Caenorhabditis elegans is a multicellular organism with a genome size of 100 Mb and it has 13,918 protein-coding genes.
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