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Assume that the "letters" of DNA are distributed randomly and that human DNA has 3 billion base pairs. About how long would you expect the average DNA segment created by a six cutter to to be? 6 base pairs
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Assume that the "letters" of DNA are distributed randomly and that human DNA has 3 billion base pairs. About how long would you expect the average DNA segment created by a six cutter to to be?

6 base pairs
64 base pairs
1,024 base pairs
4,096 base pairs

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one that recognizes a 2 base pair sequence would cut DDNA every 16 bases. A 3 base pair recognition site would be found every 64 bases.

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