One drawback from the Eadie–Hofstee approach is that neither ordinate nor abscissa represent independent variables: both are dependent on reaction rate. Thus any experimental error will be present in both axes.

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Pathogenicity islands GC content often differs from that of the rest of the genome, and it is likely that these regions are spread among bacteria by a process of horizontal transfer.

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Bacillus anthracis has two large plasmids (extrachromosomal DNA molecules), one of which has a pathogenicity island that includes the gene encoding the anthrax toxin.

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coli have average polypeptide lengths 317 amino acids, S. cerevisiae- 484 and C. elegans - 442 have average polypeptide lengths

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The sum of the number of unique genes and the number of gene families is an estimate of the number of types of genes.

The minimum size of the proteome can be estimatedfrom the number of types of genes.

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