THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE
DNA MAKES RNA MAKES PROTEIN
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Question
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TTGCATG.
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AAGTATC.
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CCTAGCT.
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GGATCGA.
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Detailed explanation-1: -For the sequence 5’-GATTACA-3’, the complementary DNA strand would be 3’-CTAATGT-5’. Often, DNA strands are written in the 5’ to 3’ direction, so the complementary strand would be 5’-TGTAATC-3’ when written 5’ to 3’.
Detailed explanation-2: -During DNA replication, each of the two strands that make up the double helix serves as a template from which new strands are copied. The new strand will be complementary to the parental or “old” strand. Each new double strand consists of one parental strand and one new daughter strand.
Detailed explanation-3: -Two strands of complementary sequence are referred to as sense and anti-sense. The sense strand is, generally, the transcribed sequence of DNA or the RNA that was generated in transcription, while the anti-sense strand is the strand that is complementary to the sense sequence.
Detailed explanation-4: -Complementary sequence: Nucleic acid sequence of bases that can form a double-stranded structure by matching base pairs. For example, the complementary sequence to C-A-T-G (where each letter stands for one of the bases in DNA) is G-T-A-C.