A scientist isolated DNA from a particular bacterium and decided to analyze it. The sequence of the bacterial DNA is ATGGGCTAGTCTT. What will the complementary strand be?

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Emil Styrke · Answer 1 · 2024-01-16T17:02:03+0000

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ATGGGCTAGTCTT is the strand above. In this case, the sequence will be TACCCGATCAGAA.

A is Adenine, which goes with T (thymine).

C is cytosine, which goes with G (guanine).