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Entire Yeast Genome Squeezed Into One Lone Chromosome


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Brewer's yeast

Brewer's yeast is a single-celled organism that usually has 16 chromosomes.

Credit: Thomas Deerinck, NCMIR/Getty

For millions of years, brewer's yeast and its close relatives have packed their DNA into 16 distinct chromosomes.

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