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in Class 12 by kratos

On the basis of the table given below, state your observations pertaining to the organisation features of the organism.

| ORGANISM | No. of chromoso mes | Genome size in base pairs | The number of predicted genes | Part of the genome that encodes for proteins |
| Worm Caenorhabditis elegans | 6 | 100,000,000 | 19,000 | 27% |
| Human **** sapiens | 23 | 3,000,000,000 | 20,000- 25,000 | <5% |
| Fly Drosophila melanogaster | 4 | 175,000,000- 196,000,000 | 13600 | 20% |

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by kratos
 
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No simple correlation between the intuitive complexity of an organism and the number of genes in its genome.

Relatively small number of genes in a human genome in comparison to worm /Drosophila melanogaster.

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