Practicing Success
Which among the following organism has more base pairs ? |
Bacteriophage . Escherichia coli . Human Yeast |
Human |
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. |