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The number of glycosidic bonds associated with the DNA of haploid human cells are

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It is known that diploid cells of humans contain 6.6×109 base pairs in its DNA. Further, each base pair contains 2 glycosidic bonds. Thus, in haploid cells, 3.3×109 base pairs are present.
So total number of glycosidic bonds in haploid human cell DNA is 2×3.3×109=6.6×109.

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