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microbe

a living organism that requires a microscope to be seen

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what is the size of microbial cells

range from mm down to 0.2 micrometers

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what do microbes consist of

majority are single celled

and its genome has the capacity to reproduce its own kind

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what domain are microbes in

members are in all three domains- bacteria, archaea, and eukarya

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contributions of carl woese

archaea as a new kingdom of life

Phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA- how one species relates to another

RNA world hypothesis

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what is a genome

total genetic information contained in an organism’s chromosomal DNA

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fred sanger

developed the first method of DNA sequencing to sequence large genomes

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what and when was the first genome sequence?

in 1995 of the bacterium Haemophilus influenza

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metagenome

The collection of sequences taken directly from the environment