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What does it mean to say that prokaryotic organisms have compact genomes, relative to eukaryotic genomes?.

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Answer:The ratios between their number of genes and their genome sizes are generally larger than those in eukaryotes. So, as the number of genes increase, usually the genome size increases too.

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