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From: pell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Anthony Pelletier)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Topology of DNA
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Date: 9 Jan 89 17:03:36 GMT
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Summary:Sorry

From chris@mimsy.umd.edu Sun Jan  8 20:29:10 1989

(I wrote)
>>1micron of DNA= 2kilodaltons = 3 kilobases (If I remember the old 1,2,3 rule
>correctly--I always have to look it up before I teach it).

>(chris responds)
>That would make 1 base = 2/3 dalton.  That cannot be right....
>
>Chris

Oh well....Make that 1micron= 2MEGAdaltons=3KB  (duplex DNA).
Sorry about that...but what's a few decimal places between friends?

-tony