If a species has 35 percent Adenine in its DNA, how much Thymine does the species have?
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35 percent- The percentage of Adenine always matches the percentage of Thymine (Uracil, in the case of RNA); this is also the case for Guanine and Cytosine. This is because these nucleotides form base pairs- if one nucleotide is at a particular location in a genome, so will be its complementary base.
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Due to base pair complementary:
A=T
C=G(3 bonds)
if a species has 35% Adenine it has also 35% Thymine since equal amounts of each need to bond to each other.
A=T
C=G(3 bonds)
if a species has 35% Adenine it has also 35% Thymine since equal amounts of each need to bond to each other.