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In human genome which one of the chromosomes has the most genes and which one has the fewest?

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Chromosome 1 is the designation for the largest human chromosome. Chromosome 1 spans about 249 million nucleotide base pairs, which are the basic units of information for DNA. chromosome Y has the lowest number of genes i.e. 231 genes only.

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