The rise per base pair (the distance between two consecutive rungs) in B-DNA is:
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Correct answer: 0.34 nm
The distance between adjacent base pairs along the helical axis is 0.34 nm (3.4 Å). Since there are 10 bp per turn, the total length of one turn is 3.4 nm.
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