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Read the following statements and find out the incorrect statements.
a. The length of DNA is usually defined as number of nucleotides or base pairs present in it.
b. In DNA, every nucleotide residue has an additional `-OH` group present at `2'`-position in the deoxyribose.
c. Nuclein was discovered and named by Friedrich Meisher in 1969.
d. Adenine pair with Thymine and Guanine with Cytosine through H-bonds. This makes one strand complementary to the other.
e. the proposition of double helical model of DNA was also based on the observation of Erwin Chargaff.

A

b, c and e

B

b, c and d

C

c and e only

D

b and c only

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`**" "`In RNA, every nucleotide residue has an additional `-OH` group present at `2'`-position in the ribose.
`**" "`Nuclein was discovered and named by Friedrich Meisher in 1869.
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