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General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry Copyright © 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. 1
Chapter 21 Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis
21.3 DNA Double Helix
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Percentage of Bases in DNA
In Chargaff’s rules for DNA of various organisms, the percentage of adenine (A) is the same as the
percentage of thymine (T) the percentage of guanine (G) is the same as the
percentage of cytosine (C)
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Complementary Base Pairs: A and TDNA contains complementary base pairs in which adenine is always linked by two hydrogen bonds to thymine (A−T).
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Complementary Base Pairs: G and C
DNA contains complementary base pairs in which guanine is always linked by three hydrogen bonds
to cytosine (G−C)
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Double Helix of DNA
The DNA structure is adouble helix that consists of two strands
of nucleotides that form a double helix structure like a spiral stair case
has hydrogen bonds between the bases A–T and G–C
has bases along one strand that complement the bases along the other
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Write the complementary base sequence for the matching strand in the following DNA section:
Learning Check
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Write the complementary base sequence for the matching strand in the following DNA section:
Solution