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The length of DNA in a bacteriophage φ174 and lambda is
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Solution:
DNA is a long polymer of deoxyribonucleotides. The length of DNA is usually defined as the number of nucleotides (or a pair of nucleotides referred to as base pairs) present in it. This also is the characteristic of an organism. For example, a bacteriophage known as φ 174 has 5386 nucleotides, bacteriophage lambda has 48502 base pairs (bp).