If there are 5000 nitrogenous base pairs in a DNA molecule, then how many nucleotides are there?

500

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1000

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5000

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10000

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Solution

The correct option is D 10000
The number of nitrogenous bases is equal to the number of nucleotides (each nucleotide contains one nitrogenous base). For 5000 nitrogenous base pairs, nucleotides will be $2 \times 5000 = 10000$ .

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