Which of the Following Correlates the Best with Biological Complexity

Question

Which of the following correlates the best with biological complexity in eukaryotes?
A) Number of genes per chromosome
B) Number of chromosomes
C) Number of genes
D) Genome size (number of nucleotide pairs)

Accepted Answer

Biological complexity correlates better with the number of genes than it does with genome size, number of chromosomes, or number of genes per chromosome.