NEETZoologyMolecular Basis of Inheritance
While analysing the DNA of an organism a total number of 5386 nucleotides were found out of which the proportion of different bases were: Adenine = 29%, Guanine = 17%, Cytosine = 32%, Thymine = 17%. Considering the Chargaff’s rule it can be concluded that:
Options
- Ait is a double-stranded circular DNA
- BIt is single-stranded DNA
- CIt is a double-stranded linear DNA
- DNo conclusion can be drawn
Correct answer
B. It is single-stranded DNA
Step-by-step solution
The DNA is single stranded as the composition does not go with rule of equal number of purines and pyrimidines.