Answer to Question #221950 in General Chemistry for Yaredo

Question #221950

Submitted Date:- Tuesday, Aug 03

#1. A bacteriophage has A-form DNA. A deletion mutant has a length of 10.4 μm instead of 15 μm. How many base pairs are missing from this mutant?

#2. The base sequence of one of the strands of a 20-bp duplex DNA is 5'-TCCGTTCGACGGTACATC-3' write the base sequence of its complementary strand.


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Expert's answer
2021-08-02T12:26:59-0400


Base pairs "\u03bcm=\\frac{15}{10.4}=1.442\n\u03bcm"


Adenine always pairs with thymine and cytosine always pairs with guanine. Thus, sequence of bases on complementary strand would be TACGTACGT.








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