DNA transcription occurs at a speed of roughly 30 base pairs

DNA transcription occurs at a speed of roughly 30 base pairs per second. For a medium sized gene with 1, 500 base pairs, it is possible for about 15 transcription operations occurring concurrently. How may RNA transcripts can be produced per hour?

Solution

Since it is possible that that 15 transcription operations can occur concurrently and one transcription occur at a speed of about 30 base pairs per seconds,

So, Roughly per seconds 450 base pairs can be transcripted. For a medium sized gene with 1500 base pair, transcription can completed in 3 seconds and 15 transcripts can be formed.

So, it will take approximately 3 seconds to formed 15 transcripts.

In 1 hour, 3600/3

= 1200*15

= 18000 transcripts can be formed.