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 if 20%  of a DNA molecule is Adenine what percent is guanine explain

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Answer:

30% is guanine

Step-by-step explanation:

This is because Chargaff’s rule says that the DNA molecule should have an equal ratio of pyrimidine (cytosine and thymine) and purine (adenine and guanine).

If 20% is Adenine then that means Thymine is 20%, they both add up to 40% leaving us with 60%

Once again since they have to be equal ratios that means what remain is the 30%.

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Hope this helped =)

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