Gujarati
5.Molecular Basis of Inheritance
easy

E. coli has only $4.6 \times 10^{6}$ base pairs and completes the process of replication within 18 minutes; then the average rate of polymerisation is approximately

A

$1000$ base pairs/second

B

$2000$ base pairs/second

C

$3000$ base pairs/second

D

$4000$ base pairs/second

(NEET-2020)

Solution

The average rate of polymerisation of $DNA$ in E.coli is $2000$ bp per second. It has only $4.6 \times 10^{6}$ bp and completes the process of replication within $18$ minutes

Standard 12
Biology

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