The genome of organism A is 4.6 million base pairs long, while that of organism

Question

The genome of organism A is 4.6 million base pairs long, while that of organism B is 12.1 million base pairs long. Given this information, what can be stated regarding these two organisms?

A. Organism B will contain approximately 7.5 million more base pairs in introns compared with Organism A

B. Organism B will contain three times as many chromosomes as Organism A

C. Organism B will contain approximately three times the number of genes as Organism A

D. All of the statements are valid

E. None of the statements are valid

Explanation / Answer

Correct answer is option E that is none of the statement are valid.

A is wrong because from the genome size we can't estimate the introns.

B is wrong because one chromosome can have million of base pair on them so again we can't say number of chromosomes as well.

C is wrong because from the total genome without knowing number of exons and introns, we can't determine the number of genes.

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