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To determine: The length of the DNA and compare it with the length of the T2 head.
Introduction:
In the life cycle of a virus, “genome packaging” is a basic process. Virus Bacteriophage T2, is also termed as phage. In, the Virus Bacteriophage T2, during the packaging of DNA, weight of DNA molecule is
Explanation of Solution
Explanation:
The nucleotide pairs of T2 DNA molecule can be calculated as:
Each base pair occupied length is3.4 Å.
Thus, the length of T2 DNA is:
The length of the DNA molecule can be compared with the length of head of the virus is:
Thus, the DNA length is
In comparison to the length of the T2 phage head it is 290 times longer.
Conclusion:
Thus, the length of the DNA is
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