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(a) The human genome contains 3164.7 million nucleotide bases.
(b) The average gene consists of 3000 bases, but sizes vary greatly with the largest known human gene being dystrophin at 2.4 million bases.
(c) The total number of genes is estimated at 30,000 much lower than previous estimates of 80,000 to 1,40,000 genes.
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