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Why is there equal amounts of cytosine and guanine and equal amounts of adenine and thymine in the DNA of a cell?
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Why is there equal amounts of cytosine and guanine and equal

amounts of adenine and thymine in the DNA of a cell?

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On the double helix of DNA, cytosine goes with guanine, and adenine goes with thymine. This way A and T must be equal and C and G must be equal.

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