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Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Molecular Basis of Inheritance

Question:
Which among the following organism has more base pairs ?
Options:
Bacteriophage .
Escherichia coli .
Human
Yeast
Correct Answer:
Human
Explanation:
The length of DNA is usually defined as number of nucleotides (or a pair of nucleotide referred to as base pairs) present in it. Bacteriophage lambda has 48502 base pairs (bp), Escherichia coli has 4.6 × 106 bp, and haploid content of human DNA is 3.3 × 109 bp.