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ATC GCT AAT what is the complementary dna strand for this original strand

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Answered by GPT-4o mini
To find the complementary DNA strand, you can use the base pairing rules of DNA, which are:

- Adenine (A) pairs with Thymine (T)
- Cytosine (C) pairs with Guanine (G)

Given the original strand:

**5'-ATC GCT AAT-3'**

The complementary strand can be constructed by pairing each base:

- A pairs with T
- T pairs with A
- C pairs with G
- G pairs with C
- C pairs with G
- T pairs with A
- A pairs with T
- T pairs with A

So the complementary strand would be:

**3'-TAG CGA TTA-5'**

It's common to write complementary DNA strands in the 5' to 3' direction, so reversing this, the complementary strand in conventional notation would be:

**5'-TTA CGC TAG-3'**

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