The length of the minimum unique stretch of DNA sequence

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The length of the minimum unique stretch of DNA sequence that can be found only once in a 3 billion base pairs long genome is

1. 14
2. 15
3. 16
4. 18

Correct Option: C

The length of the unique stretch of DNA sequence that can be found only once in 3 billion base pair long genome is a 16 bases long DNA sequence from which 16s rRNA is transcribed.