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This DNA strand consists of eight pairs of nitrogenous bases. How many different sequences of eight bases can you make? Explain how you found your answer.

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it would be 4 (possible bases) to the power of 8 because you need to multiply 4, eight times for the number of sequences. Therefore, the answer is 65, 536 possible sequences.

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