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a prokaryotic cell having 200,000 base pairs, how many atoms of phosphorous would it have? thank...

a prokaryotic cell having 200,000 base pairs, how many atoms of phosphorous would it have? thank you.
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The prokaryotic chromosome is circular means, so all nucleotides are linked to each other via a phosphodiester bond so each nucleotide have only one phosphate group ( that is beta and gamma phosphates are removed, only alpha phosphate remains) and each phosphate group there is only one phosphorous atom, if there are 200000 basepairs means there are 400000 nucleotides so number of phosphorous atoms= 400000

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