It is crude but you need to know the number and average physical size of the
chromosomes in question. The can be related to the average physical size
of a given yeast chromosome which are all very well defined according to
size and DNA content.
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On 1 Nov 1995, Maria Eugenia Ordonez wrote:
>> How can I estimate the size of the genome of a plant having the
> kariotype?
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