“cloudy brother of bacteria” should probably be “cloudy broth of bacteria”.
Do you understand mathematically what operation we’re doing when we say two species or organisms have xx% similar genomes? Each genome is, I guess, several sequences of ATCG, but how do you get a percent similarity for two sequences of different lengths?
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“cloudy brother of bacteria” should probably be “cloudy broth of bacteria”.
Do you understand mathematically what operation we’re doing when we say two species or organisms have xx% similar genomes? Each genome is, I guess, several sequences of ATCG, but how do you get a percent similarity for two sequences of different lengths?
Like this. Difference between lengths is considered non-matching.
https://en.vectorbuilder.com/tool/sequence-alignment.html