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Given the sequence of acgtat, read in the 5’ → 3’ direction, what would be the sequence of the opposite strand, read in the 5’ → 3’ direction? is this dna or rna?.

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Answer:

The strand would read ATACGT, and it's DNA.

Step-by-step explanation:

It's the reverse compliment, and as DNA is antiparallel, you would just list the nucleotide sequence corresponding to the backwards order of the original sample. This is a double strand, since there is an opposite strand, which means it is DNA.

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