Why are bacterial genes and plasmids in a closed loop?

Subject: Why are bacterial genes and plasmids in a closed loop?

Date: Wed Mar 7 15:30:15 2001
Posted by Angie
Grade level: undergrad School: NCCC
City: Malone State/Province: NY Country: USA
Area of science: Microbiology
ID: 983997015.Mi

Message:


In a class discussion, we discussed the fact that bacteria seem to be the only 
organisms that have a single stranded, closed loop of DNA. I wondered if there 
were evolutionary or other factors that caused this.

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