Which among the following organism has more base pairs ?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
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.