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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 Chargaffs 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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