He definitely did say something to that effect and it definitely is easier to have the genome near the cell wall of a small cell than a large cell.
You say “the genome” but note that one bacterium (i.e. one cell) can have more than one copy of its entire genome inside it, e.g. “many bacteria harbor multiple copies of their genome per cell”, “Enormous bacterium uses thousands of genome copies to its advantage”, etc. That’s what I was (implicitly) referring to. :-)
I did not realize that. Whoops.
He definitely did say something to that effect and it definitely is easier to have the genome near the cell wall of a small cell than a large cell.
You say “the genome” but note that one bacterium (i.e. one cell) can have more than one copy of its entire genome inside it, e.g. “many bacteria harbor multiple copies of their genome per cell”, “Enormous bacterium uses thousands of genome copies to its advantage”, etc. That’s what I was (implicitly) referring to. :-)
I did not realize that. Whoops.