question archive Suppose that one strand of DNA in a DNA molecule has the nucleotide sequence CAAGTTCAG

Suppose that one strand of DNA in a DNA molecule has the nucleotide sequence CAAGTTCAG

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Suppose that one strand of DNA in a DNA molecule has the nucleotide sequence CAAGTTCAG. What must be the sequence of nucleotides on the other strand?  Why?

 

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The sequence of nucleotides of the other strand will be GTTCAAGTC . Adenine always pairs with Thymine and Guanine always pairs with cytosine in a DNA through complementary base pairing. Therefore will be the complementary base pairing in DNA.

Strand 1: CAAGTTCAG

Strand 2: GTTCAAGTC

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