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