Principles of Biology
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Author: Robert Brooker, Eric P. Widmaier Dr., Linda Graham Dr. Ph.D., Peter Stiling Dr. Ph.D.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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The microbiome consists of all the genetic material of the entire collection of microbes in a specific environment. Species of archaea, bacteria, protists and fungi are considered to be microorganisms. Microbiomes are complex systems. So, it is challenging to determine the composition and functions of microbiomes. Biologists evaluate the complexity of microbiomes either by analyzing genes that encode ribosomal RNA or by analyzing whole metagenomic sequencing.

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