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Overview of Nuclear Structure and Function

By Elena Koslover

A typical eukaryotic nucleus has a diameter of 5μm5 \mu m. The human genome is 3 billion base-pairs. Assuming that DNA can be treated as a long cylinder of length 0.34 nm/bp and radius 1 nm, what fraction of the nuclear volume in a typical human cell is occupied by DNA?

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