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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 baseswere: 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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