The length of the DNA of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae is 2,220 kilobase pairs.
Note: 1 kilobase = 1,000 bases
Convert the kilobase pairs into base pairs.
Calculate the total length of the base pairs.
Hence, the total length of this DNA molecule is.
Calculate the 85% of .
Each amino acid is encoded by 3 base pairs (triplet codon).
Calculate the number of bases required to produce a protein with 300 amino acids.
Calculate the number of protein encoding genes in Neisseria gonorrhoeae genome.
The remaining 15% genes are probably the non-coding genes. They have the information necessary to control the expression of the 85% genes.
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