There are 700 hydrogen bonds between the complementary nitrogen bases of DNA molecule and it consists of 10% adenine. What is the length of the DNA molecule?
Answers
Answered by
2
Answer:
The lenght of the DNA in question is 250 bp. 200 of CG pairs and 50 of AT pairs.
10% adenine means also 10% thymine which in turn leads to 40% of cytosine and 40% guanine. AT pairs have 2 hydrogen bonds while CG pairs have 3 hydrogen bonds.
700 = 2X + 4(3X)
700 = 2X + 12X
700 = 14X
X = 50
MARK BRAINLIEST
X gives
Similar questions