Question

A particular virus with DNA as its genetic material has the following proportions of nucleotides: 20% A, 35% T, 25%G, and 20% C. How can you explain this result?

Answer 1

Virus may be defined the acellular organism that contain DNA or RNA as their genetic material. Thee virus may contains double stranded or single stranded DNA or RNA molecule.

The DNA has composition of 20% A, 35% T, 25%G, and 20% C. The virus DNA does not follow Chargaff's rule in which the amount of thymine is not equal to the amount of adenine. The amount of guanine is not equal to the amount of cytosine. The DNA virus consist of single stranded DNA.