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This figure represents supercoiled, circular, double-stranded DNA: If this molecule of DNA originated as a linear molecule with a linking number (L) of 30, which was then circularized and unwound, the L for the unwound circular molecule would be O32 O 18 O 28 O 30 20

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the Linking number remains unchanged for a closed supercoiled DNA molecule, but unwound circular DNA would reduce 2 linking numbers, thus the answer should be,

30-2 = 28

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