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Metabolic Potential Versus Genome Size

Atanas Todorov Atanasov1 and Dimitar Todorov Valev2
  • 1 Department of Physics and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Armeiska Str.11, Bulgaria
  • 2 Space Research and Technology Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 6000 Stara Zagora, Boncho Bonev Str. 1, Bulgaria

Abstract

In this study, we have shown that there is a connection between the metabolic potential (the coefficient 'a' in metabolic-mass relationship P = aMk, where P- basal metabolic rate, M-body mass, k-power coefficient) and the corresponding genome size (C-value diapason) of the given organismal taxon. With the increase of the metabolic potential of living organisms in evolution, the C-value diapason of a given taxon decreases. The study shows the metabolic and genomic characteristics of the simplest bacterial cells that represent the natural scale. The metabolic and genomic characteristics of all more complex organisms that emerge after them are adjusted with this natural scale. This finding may provide an answer to the genome-size enigma.

Physics International
Volume 13 No. 1, 2022, 7-16

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/pisp.2022.7.16

Submitted On: 2 March 2022 Published On: 15 June 2022

How to Cite: Atanasov, A. T. & Valev, D. T. (2022). Metabolic Potential Versus Genome Size. Physics International, 13(1), 7-16. https://doi.org/10.3844/pisp.2022.7.16

Open AccessCopyright: © 2022 Atanas Todorov Atanasov and Dimitar Todorov Valev. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • Metabolic Potential
  • Genome Size
  • Taxon
  • Enigma
  • Epigenetics