The genome of the bacterium ________, the agent of Lyme disease, is not contained in a circular DNA molecule but rather in a linear chromosome and more than twenty plasmids.

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The bacterium responsible for causing Lyme disease is Borrelia burgdorferi. Its genome is not contained in a circular DNA molecule but in a linear chromosome and more than twenty plasmids.

The Genome of the Bacterium ________, the Agent of Lyme