Biology Help!!!??? ASAP?

Riley O · #1 (**permalink**) 04-23-2008, 04:54 AM

As a set of 23 chromosomes in a human cell contains 3.2 billion pairs of DNA bases in sequence. On average, about how many pairs of bases are in each chromosome?

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captainkaoz · #2 (**permalink**) 04-23-2008, 04:55 AM

Divide the number of base pairs (3.2 billion)

by the number of chromosomes (23)

that is your answer

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