To determine: The way by which evolution in extreme environments influence genome and amino acid composition.
Introduction: The contribution of individual amino acid composition to the evolutionary rate varies among different organisms. The types of amino acids that contribute to the rate of evolution can be grouped into GC-rich and AT-rich amino acids. Besides, the amino acid with a high composition also contributes more to evolutionary rates than amino acid with low composition in the proteome.
To determine: The way by which evolution in extreme environments influences the interpretation of the genome sequence data.
Introduction: The types of amino acids which contribute to the evolutionary rates can be grouped into GC-rich and AT-rich amino acids. The amino acid composition contributes to the rate of evolution in the organisms, and this, in turn, is impacted by GC-content.
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