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What will be the percentage of guanine in a DNA molecule having 20% adenine ?

A

0.4

B

0.6

C

0.2

D

0.3

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  • What would be the percentage of thymine in a double stranded DNA sample, which contains 20% cytosine of the total bases ?

    A
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    D
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