6th Edition

ISBN: 9781259700903

Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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The technique of linking biological information to genome sequences is termed genome annotation. Gene annotation is the method of identifying gene locations and coding sections. It helps us understand what these genes are doing in the body through establ…

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Chapter 1, Problem 3P

The size of one copy of the human genome is approximately 3 billion base pairs, and it contains about 27,000 genes organized into 23 chromosomes.

a.	Human chromosomes vary in size. What would you predict is the size of the
	average chromosome?
b.	Assuming that genes are spread evenly among chromosomes, how many genes
	does an average human chromosome contain?
c.	About half of the DNA in chromosome contains genes. How large (in base pairs)
	is an average human gene?

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