Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781259700903
Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1, Problem 3P
The size of one copy of the human genome is approximately 3 billion base pairs, and it contains about 27,000 genes organized into 23 chromosomes.
| a. | Human chromosomes vary in size. What would you predict is the size of the |
| average chromosome? | |
| b. | Assuming that genes are spread evenly among chromosomes, how many genes |
| does an average human chromosome contain? | |
| c. | About half of the DNA in chromosome contains genes. How large (in base pairs) |
| is an average human gene? |
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