Use the information in the Figure 4 below to answer the foll…
Use the information in the Figure 4 below to answer the following questions. Suppose DNA polymerase synthesizes DNA at a rate of 1130 nucleotides per minute in a newly discovered bacterium, and the bacterium replicates its chromosome in 40 minutes. a) Calculate the total number of nucleotides in the bacterial chromosome. b) Using the appropriate structural information from the DNA diagram, calculate the approximate length of the entire bacterial chromosome. Figure 4:
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