text: With few exceptions, most chloroplasts have their entire chloroplast genome combined into a single large circular DNA molecule, typically 120,000–170,000 base pairs long. They can have a contour length of around 30–60 micrometers, and have a mass of about 80–130 million daltons.
  While usually thought of as a circular molecule, there is some evidence that chloroplast DNA molecules more often take on a linear shape.