Chromosomes are classified into four basic

a. Metacentric chromosome

b. Submetacentric chromosome

c. Acrocentric chromosome

d. Telocentric chromosome

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If entire genome is encoding than mathematically human should have 106 genes but humans have only 30,000 to 50,000 genes this is also a paradoxical feature of genome 

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The rate of loss of single-stranded (ss) DNA during renaturation is a second-order rate process

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Complexity (denoted by N) is the number of base pairs of unique or nonrepeating DNA in a given segment of DNA

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Consider 1000 bp DNA.

500 bp is sequence a, present in a single copy.

500 bp is sequence b (100 bp) repeated 5 times:

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Consider 5000 bp with 1000 bp (1 Copy), 700 bp (5 Copies) and 100 bp (5 Copies) calculate complexity of genome

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Repetitive DNA sequences renature faster than non repetitive DNA due to uniformity of sequence