Mitochondrial Genome

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A single copy of the mitochondrial genome. Several copies can be found in an individual mitochondrion (GO:0005739). The mitochondrial genome is much smaller than the nuclear genome, circular and does not contain junk DNA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial\_genome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial\_DNA

Suggested Ontology: Mitochondrial Genome is found in Mitochondria which are found in the cytoplasm in eukaryotic cells. Perhaps: mitochondrial_component

Synonyms: Mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA

Reported by: kailandifki

Original Ticket: "geneontology/ontology-requests/3290":https://sourceforge.net/p/geneontology/ontology-requests/3290

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• labels: --> New term request

Original comment by: kailandifki

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The GO cellular component ontology has 'mitochondrial chromosome' (GO: 0000262), which is not exactly the same, but is the closest thing that fits into the scope of GO. I've added 'related' (i.e. non-exact) synonyms to the existing term to help with searching; we won't add new terms.

You might also find the Sequence Ontology term 'mitochondrial_sequence' (SO:0000737) useful. See http:// song.sourceforge.net/ , especially http://song.sourceforge.net/SO\_view/ index.html and http://song.sourceforge.net/SO\_view/ term_tables.html#mitochondrial_sequence

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Original comment by: mah11

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• milestone: --> TermGenie
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• status: open --> closed-works-for-me

Original comment by: mah11