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Question
A short piece of DNA, having 20 base pairs, was analyzed to find the number of nucleotide bases in each of the polynucleotide strands. Some of the results are shown in the table.
| Number of nucleotide bases | ||||
| Adenine | Cytosine | Guanine | Thymine | |
| Strand 1 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Strand 2 | 5 | |||
How many nucleotides containing Adenine were present in strand 2?
Options
2
4
5
7
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Solution
5
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