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the question also compares the genomes in each cell.
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Prokaryote

Prokaryotic genomes are very different from eukaryotic ones. There is some overlap in size between the largest prokaryotic and smallest eukaryotic genomes, but on the whole prokaryotic genomes are much smaller. For example, the E. coli K12 genome is just 4639 kb, two-fifths the size of the yeast genome, and has only 4405 genes. The physical organization of the genome is also different in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. The traditional view has been that an entire prokaryotic genome is contained in a single circular DNA molecule. As well as this single ‘chromosome’, prokaryotes may also have additional genes on independent smaller, circular or linear DNA molecules called plasmids.
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