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While analyzing the DNA of an organism, it was found that adenine proportion was 30%. What would be the proportion of cytosine in its DNA?
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DNA is the nucleic acid that forms the genetic material in all organisms. The structure of deoxyribose nucleic acid was elucidated by Watson and Crick. The DNA is a double helical structure having two anti-parallel strands of polynucleotide chains joined to each other by hydrogen bonding formed between the N-bases. In a double stranded DNA, the ratios between Adenine and Thymine and Guanine and Cytosine are constant and equals one; this observation was given by Erwin Chargaff. Thus, . Therefore, percentage of Adenine and Thymine are same and that of Guanine and Cytosine is same. .
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