Calculate the Linking Number in Vivo for a Plasmid That

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Short Answer

Calculate the linking number in vivo for a plasmid that is 4200 bp in size if there is normally 1 negative supercoil in every 20 base pairs of a circular DNA. Assume there are 10.5 bp per turn of the double helix.

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