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9 years ago
There is more dna present in the larger eukaryotic cells, many prokaryotic sells have circular dna.
The DNA duplicates then moves to the poles of the cell, stretching it then eventually making 2 cells, the process is called bacterial fission (not just fission)
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9 years ago
My micro teacher simplified this by drawing a picture of both. The bacterial DNA makes a circle whereas our own human cells are the stereotypical "twisted ladder" image we've all seen. So thing of the bacterial DNA of looking somewhat like this... 0
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9 years ago
Bacterial DNA is circular, has less intergenic regions (introns), less transposable elements, generally less complex (doesn't always means smaller), produces polycistronic mRNA, and is less resistant to mutation (due to less intergenic regions).

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9 years ago
Bacterial DNA is also haploid(humans are diploid meaning that we have a chromosome from mom and a chromosome from dad which could result in recessive or dominant or incomplete dominant or codominant) and double stranded. It is circular and is not contained in an organelle such as a nucleus; it is floating in the cytoplasm as a circular dna.
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