WORKSHEET CHAPTER FOUR – ECOSYSTEMS AND …

B. DNA molecules within chromosomes are very long. In E. coli, each bacterium contains DNA with 4,639, 221 40 _____ The entire E. coli DNA strand laid out straight would be 1.6 41 _____ To fit inside a typical bacterium, the DNA molecule must be folded into a space only one one-thousandth of its 42 _____. ................
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