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What will be the length of eukaryotic DNA segment having 10 pairs of nucleotides?

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The type of DNA in the eukaryotes is the B-DNA. In the B-DNA, the distnace between base pairs is 3.4 A $^{o}$ . There are 10 base pairs in one turn of helix. The length of the helix is 3.4 x 10 = 34 A $^{o}$ . The length of the DNA segment having 10 bases will be 34 A $^{o}$ .

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