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why adenine(A) and thymine(T) are in roughly equal amounts? and why cytosine(C) and guanine(G) are in roughly equal amounts.

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A-T and C-G are complements so when there is an A in the nucleotide its complementary nucleotide will be a T, vice versa. This is the same with C-G as well.