A single strand of DNA helix consists of 100 nitrogenous base pairs. On one strand, 36 of the bases are adenine and 24 are cytos

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ine. For the complimentary strand of DNA, which would complete the proper base pairing? 36 guanine 36 thymine 24 cytosine 24 thymine

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yawa3891 [41] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-30T07:56:52+03:00

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36 thymine (matches with 36 adenine)
24 guanine (matches with 24 cytosine)

e-lub [12.9K] · Answer 2 · 2022-06-30T10:10:14+03:00

Answer:

36 thymine and 24 guanine.

Explanation:

A DNA is a double helix structure in which each helix consists of complementary bases.

The complementary bases are -

a) Adenine and thymine

b) guanine and cytosine

Thus above two pairs of nucleotide bases pair with each other in equal amount .

Thus , if 36 bases of adenine has to form a pair with thymine there must be 36 bases of thymine

Like wise, if 24 bases of cytosine has to form a pair with guanine there must be 24 bases of guanine

Thus , the correct answer is option 36 thymine and 24 guanine.