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The total number of nitrogenous bases in human genome is estimated to be about:
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Options:
  • A 35 million
  • B 3.1 billion
  • C 3.5 million
  • D 35 thousand
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The correct answer is: 3.1 billion
International collaborative efforts were taken for Human genome project with a 15-year plan to identify and map an originally estimated 80,000-100,000 human genome and to sequence approximately 3 billion base pairs.

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