Erwin Chargaff’s work on the composition of nucleic acids began in 1944. His findings, which later became known as Chargaff’s rules, detail the specific pairings that occur in double-stranded DNA molecules.
According to one of Chargaff’s rules, a section of DNA molecule that contains 50 base pairs and has 15 adenine bases must also contain —
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35 thymine bases.