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Alina [70]
3 years ago
10

Why are the two strands of the double helix "perfect and specific compliments"?

Biology
1 answer:
77julia77 [94]3 years ago
7 0
Because for the strands to form a double helix the base pairs have to match perfectly (adenine with thymine and cytosine with guanine) in DNA , and if a strand of RNA is paired with a split strand of DNA it goes adenine with uracil and cytosine with guanine (uracil replaces thymine)
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