title: The kinetic complexity of Acetabularia chloroplast DNA.
abstract: The kinetic complexity of Acetabularia cliftonii chloroplast DNA is 1.52 +/- 0.26 . 10(9) daltons, compared to 0.2 .10(9) daltons for Chlamydomonas chloroplast DNA. There is an average of three genomes per chloroplast. The unusually large size of the Acetabularia genome may reflect the ancient evolutionary history of this organism.
mesh_terms: D000076:Acetabularia / Q000032:analysis*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002696:Chlamydomonas / Q000032:analysis; D000460:Chlorophyta / Q000032:analysis*; D004247:DNA / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004926:Escherichia coli; D007700:Kinetics; D008970:Molecular Weight; D009695:Nucleic Acid Renaturation; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004247:DNA