The percentage base composition was determined for a virus with the following re
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The percentage base composition was determined for a virus with the following results: 26% A, 31% T, 19% C, and 24% G. Provide an explanation for these results. It is a DNA virus, please don't reply that, basically provide an explanation as to why the percentages of the bases are so different and neither of them match to the one they're supposed to? that's what I'm having problems figuring out! can you please help with that answer?
Something along the lines of Chargaff's rules or something as to why is it attributed the difference in bases percentages.
Explanation / Answer
The above percentages do not matches the chargaffs rule which states that all organisms should have the 1;1 ratio of base pairs ,purines to pyramidines more specifically the amount of guanine is equal to cytosine and amount of adenine is equal to thymine . as the viral DNA is single stranded the chargaff rule does not apply . they do not follow base pairing rule .so if there is no match in the base pairing it does not count for the viral DNA .
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