Bacteria have RNA too!

Up to now most of what I have explained has been from eukayotes  which are species whose DNA resides in a nucleus (like us, plants and fungi). Since I have been helping my colleague Patrick with his book chapter on prokaryotic small RNAs I thought that might be a good topic for this week since I am finding them so fascinating. Prokaryote is the collective name for bacteria and archaea (archaea are the fun species that grow at high temperatures, high salt and can have s...