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What will be number of phosphodiester bonds in a 10 bp ds DNA molecule?
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18
Option A is correct. A 10 bp ds DNA molecule has 20 nucleotides. Each nucleotide is linked by a phosphodiester bond, except for the terminal nucleotides on each strand, so there are 18 phosphodiester bonds.

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