The World's first artificial life is JCVI-syn1.0 (Synthia) with a _________ genome that was created by the John Craig Venter Institute in Maryland of the US and published in Science in 2019. It contained a minimal prokaryotic genome, the chromosome of Mycoplasma genitalium. JCVI-syn1.0 is an artificial M. mycoides cell with the expected phenotype and self-replication capability.
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