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Background: Sequenced Organisms

(As of 2017)

Sequenced Animal Genomes

Caenorhabditis elegans

Common Name: Nematode Worm

Year: 1998

Bases Pairs: 100 million

Goal: First animal to be sequenced

S.1, s.1

Sequenced Plant Genomes

Arabidopsis thaliana

Common Name: Thale cress

Year: 2000

Bases Pairs: 119 million

Goal: First plant to be sequenced

S.1, s.12

Sequenced Bacterial/Viral Genomes

Bacteriophage MS2

Common Name: Bacteriophage MS2

Year: 1976

Bases Pairs: 3,569

Goal: First genome to be completely sequenced

S.1, s.14

Other Sequenced Genomes

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Common Name: Baker's Yeast

Year: 1996

Bases Pairs: 21.1 million

Goal: First fungi to be completely

 sequenced

S.1, s.18

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