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Biochemistry Metabolism of nucleic acids c522c037

Human genome contains --- base pairs

A
(3 x 10 )9
B
(3 x 10 )8
C
(3 x 10 )7
D
(3 x 10 )6
High-Yield Explanation
The haploid human genome (containing only 1 copy of each chromosome) consists of roughly 3 billion of these base pairs grouped into 23 chromosomes. A human being inherits two sets of genomes (one from each parent), and thus two sets of chromosomes, for a total of 46 chromosomes, representing the diploid genome, which contains about 6x10^9 base pairs.

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