The top 20 highest-paid biopharma CEOs 1. Len Schleifer, Regeneron $41.97 million. Schleifer may have popped up on our CEO pay list just a few years ago--and stayed at or near the top--but he's been plugging away at Regeneron since he founded the company in 1988.
Most bacterial species contain a single type of chromosome, but it may be present in multiple copies. Several thousand different genes are interspersed throughout the chromosome; structural gene sequences (encoding proteins) account for the majority of bacterial DNA; nontranscribed DNA sequences between adjacent genes are termed intergenic regions.
Chromosomes are single strands of DNA. Bacterial DNA is packaged into a single chromosome that is a continuous loop. In both cases, the DNA must be folded or coiled so that it will fit into the cell. In bacteria the compaction involves DNA binding proteins that help to form initial loops followed by coiling of DNA.