In 2010, scientists developed a series of overlapping oligonucleotides that extended a full 1.08 million base pairs and used it to develop the first complete organism using a synthetic genome. The newly created cells had normal growth and morphology. What organism did they generate in these groundbreaking experiments?
A) Escherichia coli
B) Saccharomyces cerevisiae
C) Mycoplasma mycoides
D) Haemophilus influenza

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The Answer of In 2010, scientists developed a series of overlapping oligonucleotides that extended a full 1.08 million base pairs and used it to develop the first complete organism using a synthetic genome. The newly created cells had normal growth and morphology. What organism did they generate in these groundbreaking experiments?
A) Escherichia coli
B) Saccharomyces cerevisiae
C) Mycoplasma mycoides
D) Haemophilus influenza

In 2010, Scientists Developed a Series of Overlapping Oligonucleotides That