GATE XL · 2019 · XL-T
Question 17: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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Question 17
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The molecular weight of a double stranded DNA fragment present in mitochondria is 7.92 × 10⁸ g mol⁻¹. A pair of nucleotide contributes 0.34 nm to the length of DNA and the average molecular weight of a nucleotide is 330 g mol⁻¹. The number of protein molecules, consisting of 200 amino acids each, coded by this mitochondrial DNA is _____.
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2019XL-T
GATE XL 2019 · Paper 1
Life Sciences · Original paper archive
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- Section XL-T
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- Numerical answer (NAT)
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