Table 1.
Chloroplast | Mitochondrion | |
---|---|---|
Total length (bp) | 127,489 | 107,730 |
Protein coding (genes/ORFs [exons bp total]) | 82/83 [69,897] | 41/41 [36,285]* |
Ribosomal (genes [exons bp total]) | 8 [4,532] | 3 [4,822] |
tRNA (genes [exons bp total]) | 36 [2,705] | 24 [1,795] |
Other (introns, spacers, pseudogenes etc., bp total) | 50,355 | 64,828 |
Adenine, A (bp [%]) | 45,073 [35.4%] | 31,162 [28.9%] |
Cytosine, C (bp [%]) | 18,834 [14.8%] | 22,098 [20.5%] |
Guanine, G (bp [%]) | 18,635 [14.6%] | 23,720 [22%] |
Thymine, T (bp [%]) | 44,941 [35.3%] | 30,750 [28.5%] |
Weight (single-stranded) | 39.371 MDa | 33.313 MDa |
Weight (double-stranded) | 78.749 MDa | 66.558 MDa |
*All counts include the two unidentified ORFs (see Figure 3).