Packaging of DNA Helix. The distance between two consecutive base pair: “340m (0.34x10° m), if the length of DNA helix in a typical mammalian cell is calculated (simply by multiplying the total number of bp with distance ; between two consecutive bp, that is, 6.6 x 10°9 bp x 0.34 * 10power 9 m/bp), it comes out to be approximately 2.2 meter. A length that is far greater than the “mension of typical nucleus (approximately 10% a How is such a long polymer packaged in a cell? If the length of E. coli DNA is 1.36 mm, can you calculate the number of base pairs in E.coli? In prokaryotes, such as, E. coli, though they do not have throughout the cell. DNA (being negatively charged) wy is held with some proteins (that have positive . charges) in a region termed...