You have discovered a new species of microorganism in a sample from a hydrothermal vent. You determine that it has a small, circular genome. Would you predict that the organism would have negatively...

Hydrothermal vents are fissures in the ocean floor from which geothermally heated water emerges. They are common near areas of high volcanic activity, in areas where tectonic plates diverge at propagation centers, oceanic basins, and hotspots. A new species of a microorganism has been found in o hydrothermal vent whose genome is circular and small. Now, the question arises whether the DNA is negatively supercoiled, positively supercoiled, or relaxed. Topoisomerase, an enzyme is responsible for the regulation and maintenance of the supercoiled state of DNA and are critical...