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Calculate the weight in grams of a double-helical DNA molecule stretching from Earth to the moon (~320,000 km). The DNA double helix weighs about 1 × 10^-18 g per 1,000 nucleotide pairs; each base pair extends 3.4 Å. For an interesting comparison, your body contains about 0.5 g of DNA.

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          Calculate the weight in grams of a double-helical DNA molecule stretching from Earth to the moon (~320,000 km). The DNA double helix weighs about 1 × 10^-18 g per 1,000 nucleotide pairs; each base pair extends 3.4 Å. For an interesting comparison, your body contains about 0.5 g of DNA.

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Organic Chemistry

Janice Gorzynski Smith 4th Edition

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02/16/2023

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Calculate the weight in grams of a double-helical DNA molecule stretching from Earth to the moon (~320,000 km). The DNA double helix weighs about 1 × 10^-18 g per 1,000 nucleotide pairs; each base pair extends 3.4 Å. For an interesting comparison, your body contains about 0.5 g of DNA.