Homework
Weekly homework submissions:
Week 2 Lecture Pre Homework under Professor Jacobson Section Q: Nature’s machinery for copying DNA is called polymerase. What is the error rate of polymerase? A: The error rate of polymerase is approximately 1 error per 10⁵ nucleotides. Q. How does this compare to the length of the human genome. A: The haploid human genome is about:3 × 10⁹ base pairs (3 billion). If polymerase copied the genome with no additional safeguards, it falls on the order of ~30,000 errors per cell division.