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4 August, 00:41

If there are 2000 nucleotides in a strand of DNA and 600 contain the nitrogen base cytosine, how many nucleotides contain adenine?

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  1. 4 August, 00:58
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    The correct answer is 400.

    There is a complementary bounding in each DNA helix between nucleotide bases.

    There are two types of nitrogenous bases : the single-ring (thymine and cytosine) also called pyrimidines, and the double-ring bases (adenine and guanine), also called purines. Two DNA strands are complementary paired: cytosines form three hydrogen bonds with guanines, and adenines form two hydrogen bonds with thymines (C and G is one base pair and A - T is another).

    So, if there is 2000 nucleotides in double stranded DNA, C=600 and G=600. That means that A+T=800, A=400 and T=400
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