Explain the following salient features of a DNA molecule :

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Explain the following salient features of a DNA molecule :
(a) Complimentarity of the base pairs of its two chains.
(b) Anti-parallel polarity of the two chains.

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answered Feb 1, 2018 by sameer (82,980 points) 5 14 64

(a) Complimentarity- Adenine (A) , Guanine ( G) , Thymine (T) and Cytosine ( C) are the four bases in a DNA molecule; 'A' always pairs with 'T' with the help of two hydrogen bonds; 'G' always pairs with 'C' with the help of three hydrogen bonds 
(b) It means if one chain has polarity 5' →  3' the other has 3' →  5' ,a polymer thus formed has at one end a free phosphate moiety at 5 ' of deoxyribose sugar (5' end of the polynucleo tide chain), at the other end of the polymer the deoxyribose sugar has a free 3 ' OH ( 3' end of polynucleotide chain )

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