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A Sequence of B-DNA Contains 78,000 Base Pairs

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A sequence of B-DNA contains 78,000 base pairs.Analysis shows that 42% are C-G base pairs.Answer the following questions and show your mathematical work.
a. How many pyrimidine bases are in this sequence?
b. How many nucleotides are cytosines?
c. How many nucleotides are thymines?
d. How many hydrogen bonds does this sequence contain?
e. How many turns of the double helix occur in this sequence?

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