Length of a DNA sequence that would occur statistically only once in chromosome
Value | 11 base pairs |
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Organism | Bacteria Escherichia coli |
Reference | Benno Muller-hill, 1996, The Lac Operon: A Short History Of A Genetic Paradigm, Publisher: Walter de Gruyter. Berlin. New York. Part 3.2 p.134 |
Method | Calculated according to: (1)E. Coli single chromosome approximately 4.7E6 base pairs long, and (2)number of different 11 base pair sequences is 4^11=~4E6 |
Entered by | Uri M |
ID | 102071 |