If the average protein length as 500 amino acids, every gene would have on average 1500 nucleotides. 480 genes 1500 bases long = 720,000. So the proteins of m.genitalium must be smaller than that on average, but that's realistic. read more
It depends on the gene but if u want a rough average then in a single cell there's about 6 billion nucleotides and about 23,000 genes. Just divide which gives you about 261,000 per gene. But it depends on each gene that's just an estimate. read more