A single skin cell was isolated and placed into growth medium in a sterile Petri dish. The Petri dish was then incubated for 16 days. Over this period, the number of skin cells increased because mitotic divisions happened repeatedly. In the nucleus of each skin cell, one chromosome has a telomere made up of many repeats of the base sequence TTAGGG. On days 4, 8, 12 and 16 of the incubation period, one cell was taken out of the Petri dish each time. For each of these cells, the total number of bases in the telomere of this chromosome was measured. The four cells had different total numbers of telomere bases for this chromosome: 5548, 5580, 5645 and 5700. What was the total number of telomere bases in the chromosome from the cell that had undergone the greatest number of mitotic divisions?
- A5548
- B5580
- C5645
- D5700