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Given two complementary strands of DNA containing 100 base pairs each, calculate the ratio...

Given two complementary strands of DNA containing 100 base pairs each, calculate the ratio of two separate strands to hydrogen-bonded double helix in solution at 300 K. (Hint: The formula for calculating this ratio is e-ΔE/RT, where ΔE is the energy difference between hydrogen-bonded double-strand DNAs and single­strand DNAs and R is the gas constant.) Assume the energy of hydrogen bonds per base pair to be 10 kJ/mol.

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