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According to Chargaff’s rules for DNA base composition, if a DNA sample contained 10%
guanine, the sample should have:
A. 40% cytosine
B. 90% cytosine
C. 10% adenine
D. 40% thymine
How many base pairs are there in a 6.8 nanometer DNA sequence?
A. 5
B. 10
C. 15
D. 20
Considering the principle of complementary base pairing, you would expect an equal ratio of which two nitrogenous bases in a DNA molecule?
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guanine and thymine
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uracil and adenine
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thymine and cytosine
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cytosine and guanine
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Ch. 16 - Hershey and Chase devised an experiment using...Ch. 16 - Review the structure of DNA by labeling the...Ch. 16 - Using different colors for heavy (parental) and...Ch. 16 - Look back to Interactive Question 16.2 and label...Ch. 16 - In this diagram of bacterial DNA replication,...Ch. 16 - Draw the last Okazaki fragment being formed on the...Ch. 16 - List the successive levels of packing in a...Ch. 16 - Prob. 1SYKCh. 16 - Prob. 2SYKCh. 16 - One of the reasons most scientists thought...
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- A new type of nucleic acid molecule is found have a base composition of 29% adenine, 19% thymine, 21% cytosine and 31% guanine. The molecule is probably: a. single stranded DNA b. double stranded RNA c. double stranded DNA d. single stranded RNAarrow_forwardWhich of the following are nucleotide base pairs found in DNA? Select all that apply. A. Adenine and thymine B. Cytosine and adenine C. Thymine and guanine D. Guanine and cytosinearrow_forwardAn analysis of the bases in DNA present in body cells gave the following results: W units/g X units/g Y units/g Z units/g 31 45 45 31 The correct identification of each base would be: W Y Z A. adenine guanine B. cytosine adenine C. guanine D. thymine Select one: a. C b. D c. B d. A X thymine guanine thymine cytosine cytosine guanine cytosine thymine adenine adeninearrow_forward
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