how much of a persons DNA carries information that ends up defining the structures of preoteins?

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how much of a persons DNA carries information that ends up defining the structures of preoteins?

2006-09-27 12:31:49 · 3 answers · asked by 9929 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology

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The previous answer is off by a factor of 10. There are 3,038,000,000 bases in the human genome. Out of those 3 billion bases, only about 1.5% encodes proteins.

2006-09-28 20:26:32 · answer #1 · answered by Slackenerny 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

About 3%.

2006-09-27 12:35:09 · answer #2 · answered by Jennifer 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋

The entire human genome is about 300,000,000 base pairs of DNA. Each base pair is a rung on the double helix. It has been found to contain about 30,000 genes of average size 1 kilobase pairs (1,000 base pairs). So roughly 10% of the genome codes for protein.

2006-09-27 14:57:38 · answer #3 · answered by Dastardly 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋