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Cytosine makes up 38% of nucleotides in a sample of DNA. what percentage of nucleotides will be thymine?

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Cytosine binds with guanine, therefore there will be the same percentage of guanine nucleotides as cytosine.

100-38-38 is 24% adenine and thymine

24/2=12%thymine

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