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While analysing the DNA of an organism a total number of 5386 nucleotides were found out of which the proportion of different bases were: Adenine=29 %, Guanine= 17%, Cytosine=32%, Thymine=17 %, Considering the Chargaff's rule it can be concluded that

A

it is a double stranded circular DNA

B

it is single stranded DNA

C

it is a double stranded linear DNA

D

no conclusion can be drawn

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