Asked by aubrey

A diagram depicting the bases on a short section of DNA during replication is shown below.

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Which of the following correctly identifies the sequence of bases on the new complementary strand "I"?

A.
CUAG

B.
CTAG

C.
TCGA

D.
AGCT

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
C

DNA base-pairing: A pairs with T and C pairs with G (RNA uses U instead of T, so A is never paired with U in DNA). The complement of the shown template sequence (A G C T) is T C G A, i.e. TCGA.