The average size of a vertebrate gene is about 30,000 base pairs.
Bacteria, because their sequences contain only coding material, have smaller
genes of about 1,000 base pairs each. Human genes are in the
20,000-50,000 base pair range, although sizes greater than 100,000 base
pairs have been suggested as well.
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