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meaning of molecular weight - (Mar/08/2010 )

Can you describe the bp size of a dna segment as its molecular weight or is that just for proteins? :)

-wizzkid-

you can but it is more descriptive, and more widely accepted, to give nucleic acid size in base pairs (~660Da/bp).

-mdfenko-