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Na has two strands. of the sequence of nucleotides of one strand was known, is it possible to use that information to determine the sequence of the second strand

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Yes, because each of the four nucleotide bases present in DNA have a corresponding base: adenine bases always pair with thymine bases, and cytosine bases always pair with guanine bases. For example, if one strand of a DNA molecule was CTAGGT, the sequence of the second strand would be, from left to right, GATCCA. 
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