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Parent strand of DNA is CCTAGCT. What is the complementary strand?

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Answer:

GGATCGA

Step-by-step explanation:

Adenine goes with thymine and Cytosine e goes with guanine.

Basically A is with T; C is with G

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User Mysl
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Note that:

C matches with G

T matches with A

In this case, the strand of DNA given is CCTAGCT. The complementary strand would therefore be GGATCGA.

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