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GATE XL · 2017 · XL-Q

Question 26: life-sciences

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The duration of DNA synthesis (S phase) in plant cells is 11 h and the DNA is replicated at a rate of 100 bp/s/fork. A plant species has about 3.0×10¹⁰ bp DNA/genome. The number of bidirectional forks per genome required for replication will be …………………

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GATE XL 2017 · Paper 1

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Section XL-Q
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