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Solutions For An Introduction to Genetic Analysis Chapter 1 Problem 12P

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Solution 1

Erwin Chargaff studied the nitrogenous bases in the nucleic acids. Chargaff’s rule states that the quantity of adenine (A) equals the amount of thymine (T) and the quantity of cytosine (C) equals the amount of guanine (G) in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). It is simply represented as.

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In the given case, DNA has 100 base pairs (200 bases); among 100 base pairs 32 bases are Adenine. So, the number of thymine bases could be 32 and. So, the amount of G and C can be calculated as follows: