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#Question id: 2877


What is the superhelical density of a closed-circular DNA with a length of 4,200 bp and a linking number (Lk) of 374? What is the superhelical density of the same DNA when Lk = 412? Are these molecules negatively or positively supercoiled?

A. The molecule is getting negatively supercoiled.

B. The molecule is getting positively supercoiled.

C. The superhelical density is positive.

D. The superhelical density is negative.

Which of the combinations of the above statements are correct?

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization
  1. A and C

  2.  B and D

  3.  A and D

  4. B and C