Rayees posted an Question
January 04, 2021 • 02:35 am 30 points
  • IIT JAM
  • Biotechnology (BT)

During replication, some part of dna unwinds (200 bps) and 1400 bps is present in winded form while the rest of the dna still favor 10 bps per turn.

During replication, some part of DNA unwinds (200 bps) and 1400 bps is present in winded form while the rest of the DNA still favor 10 bps per turn. What are the new L, T, and W ?

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    Narayan singh best-answer

    see attached image...

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    can you tell me how did you calculate T and W?

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    overall base pairs is 1600. but 200 base pairs unwind.... then we can minus 200 from 1600 and decided by 10 for the calculation of Twist (T)

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    bcz 10 base pairs present in one turn

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    and w can be calculated by L-T

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    thanks alot, I got it!

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