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A segment of a DNA strand has the base sequence TCGATC. What is the base sequence of the complementary strand?

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The complementary strand of a DNA segment is determined by matching each base with its complementary base. The complementary bases in DNA are:

A-T (Adenine pairs with Thymine)
C-G (Cytosine pairs with Guanine)

So, the complementary base sequence of the DNA segment TCGATC would be:

A-T-C-G-A-T

So the complementary strand would be AGCTAG
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