GATE XL · 2017 · XL-S
Question 73: Microbial Ecology
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Question 73
XL-SNAT2 marksNeeds review
Assume that the average DNA content of a single microbial cell is 4 femtogram. A soil sample analyzed for its microbial community DNA is found to contain 0.32 μg DNA per gram of the soil. The number of microbial cells per milligram of the soil are ______.
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GATE XL 2017 · Paper 1
Life Sciences · Original paper archive
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- Section XL-S
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- Numerical answer (NAT)
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- 2 marks
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