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Agriculture · Q917

Agronomy

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 917

Q917

Amount of non-nuclear DNA present in a cell

A.
of nuclear DNA
B.
of nuclear DNA
Answer
C.
of nuclear DNA
D.
None of the above

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
Non-nuclear DNA is the extrachromosomal DNA present in mitochondria or chloroplast of some cell, i.e. any DNA that is found off the chromosomes.
Most of the DNA in an individual genome is found in chromosomes contained in the nucleus, but the amount of non-nuclear DNA present in a cell is around of the nuclear DNA.