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Which components bond with the nitrogenous base, guanine, in a section of double-stranded DNA?

Options:

Ribose sugar and uracil


Deoxyribose sugar, phosphate, and Thymine


Guanine, cytosine, and phosphate


Cytosine and deoxyribose sugar

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Answer:

Cytosine and deoxyribose sugar

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Answer: Cytosine and deoxyribose sugar

Explanation: : Remember the base pairing rules: cytosine with guanine and adenine with thymine, in equal amounts. To compliment the given base,, you'd have to choose the nucleotide that would pair with it, attached to a phosphate-sugar backbone. I'm not quite sure why they didn't include phosphate in that option, but it's the only possible one. Guanine couldn't pair with any of the other listed options.

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