Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry 6th Edition

Published by W.H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 1-42923-414-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-42923-414-6

Chapter 8 - Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids - Problems - Page 309: 3

Answer

The weight of the DNA molecule is 0.00094g

Work Step by Step

Conversion of the length of DNA from km to Å Length of the DNA =(3,20,000 km) $\times$($10^{13}$ Å/km) = 32$\times$$10^{17} Å$ Conversion of the length of DNA from Å to bp Number of base pairs = $\frac{32\times10^{17} Å}{3.4 Å/bp}$ = $94\times10^{16}$ bp Weight of the DNA = $(94\times10^{16}bp)\times(\frac{10^{-8}g}{10^{3}bp})$ =0.00094g
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