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Please explain why the following statements are true or false based on the information contained in the chart.

 

Quantity of Nucleotides in DNA

Source

Adenine

Thymine

Guanine

Cytosine

Calf

1.13

1.11

 

.86

.85

Rat

1.15

1.14

.86

.82

Moth

.84

.80

 

1.22

1.33

Virus

1.17

1.12

 

.9

.81

 

1. The sources of data suggest that adenine and thymine nucleotides pair with each other.

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2. The amounts of adenine and Thymine nucleotides in a cell are always greater than the amounts of guanine and cytosine nucleotides.

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