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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 double stranded linear DNA

B

It is double stranded circular DNA

C

It is single stranded DNA

D

Both A and B

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C
`**" "`Considering the Chargaff's rule it can be concluded that it is single stranded DNA.
`**" "`It does follow Chargaff's rule.
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