Question

A forensic scientist is trying to find out the number of adenine in the DNA sample that he obtained from a crime scene.

What can he assume about the number of adenine?
The number of adenine will be equal to the number of guanine.
The number of adenine will be equal to the number of all the other bases.
The number of adenine will be equal to the number of thymine.
The number of adenine will be not equal to the number of any other base.

Answer 1

it’s c

Step-by-step explanation:

i took the unit test n got it right

Answer 2

He can assume that the number of adenine is always equal to the number of thymine because of the base pair rule. Adenine matches with the other purine pair, so it matches with thymine because it is the thing that t can have a hydrogen bond with. Hope it helps.