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What will the percentage of cytosine be in this segment of DNA?

What will the percentage of cytosine be in this segment of DNA?-example-1

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15%

Together, adenine and thymine compose 70% of the segment. This means that 30% of the section is composed of guanine-cytosine pairs. Since these two bases will be equal in quantity, 15% of the DNA section will be cytosine bases.

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