Answer to Question #186303 in Molecular Biology for Muhammad Tauqeer

Question

. A bacterium having a genome size of 3.6 million base pairs would yield a replicon of how many base pairs and why

Answer 1

It will form a single replicon of 3.6 million base pairs. A bacterium has a single circular chromosome with one origin of replication, from where two replication forks progress in opposite direction to replicate the whole genome.