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September 16, 2020 • 04:31 am 30 points
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A bacterium has a genome of size 6 million base pairs. if the average rate of dna synthesis is 1000 base pairs/second. the time taken (in minutes) for replicati

A bacterium has a genome of size 6 million base pairs. If the average rate of DNA synthesis is 1000 base pairs/second. the time taken (in minutes) for replication of the genome will be 100

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  • Abhijeet Gaurav best-answer

    Answer is 100 mins. 6 million base pairs = 6000000 bps Now as it's rate of DNA synthesis is 1000 bps / sec so calculating on this average basis : 6000000/1000 = 6000 bp/sec Now converting it in minutes 6000/60 = 100 mins. So whole genome replication will take place in 100 mins.

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