Inquiry into Life
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ISBN: 9781259426162
Author: Sylvia S. Mader Dr., Michael Windelspecht
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 25.1, Problem 1QTC
Based on Chargaff’s rules, if a segment of DNA is composed of 20% adenine (A) bases, what is the percentage of guanine (G)?
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