Since we know that 35% of the bases in the section of DNA are adenine, we can conclude that 35% of the bases are thymine. This is because adenine will always pair with thymine, so there will be just as many thymine bases as adenine bases. Together, adenine and thymine compose 70% of the segment.

This means that 30% of the section is composed of guanine-cytosine pairs.

Since these two bases will be equal in quantity, 15% of the DNA section will be cytosine bases.

Nucleic acids are made up of nitrogenous bases and a sugar-phosphate backbone. The sugar will vary depending on if it is an RNA or DNA molecule that's being discussed. RNA has ribose while DNA has deoxyribose. The nitrogenous bases are guanine, adenine, thymine, cytosine and uracil. Tyrosine is an amino acid, therefore not involved in the composition of nucleic acids.

We can use Chargaff's rule to find the remaining compositional percentages. Adenine always pairs with thymine, so their percentages will be equal. Cytosine always pairs with guanine, so their percentages will also be equal. The sum of all four percentages must equal 100%.

We know that the sample is 22% adenine; this tells us it is also 22% thymine.

Since cytosine and guanine are present in equal amounts, we can simply divide their sum by 2.

The final composition is 22% adenine, 22% thymine, 28% cytosine, and 28% guanine.

Uracil is only found in RNA.

There are four nitrogenous bases found in DNA: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine. Adenine always binds with thymine, and cytosine always binds with guanine.

Since certain bases always appear in pairs, they will have equal percentages of the DNA composition. The percentage of adenine will equal the percentage of thymine, and the percentage of cytosine will equal the percentage of guanine. Together, these percentages will add to 100%.

We know that the sample is 35% adenine, which tells us that it is also 35% thymine.

We know that cytosine and guanine pair together and will be present in equal amounts, so we can divide this final total by 2 to find our answer.

The sample is 35% adenine, 35% thymine, 15% guanine, and 15% cytosine.

Nucleic acids are one of the main biological macromolecules, and include DNA and RNA. A nucleotide is a DNA monomer, while a ribonucleotide is an RNA monomer. Numerous nucleotides are bonded together by phosphodiester bonds to form a single molecule of DNA. The pattern of nucleotides is used to store and transmit hereditary information. A nucleotide is composed of a phosphate group, a nitrogenous base, and a pentose sugar (deoxyribose).

Chargaff's rule only applies to DNA. RNA is single-stranded, and thus, no base pairing occurs.

Think of a strand of DNA. Each base pairs with a specific partner, allowing us to determine their percentages: adenine and thymine are always equal, and cytosine and guanine are always equal. In RNA, with this pairing absent, there is no correlation between the base percentages. A strand could be 20% adenine, 30% guanine, 5% cytosine, and 45% uracil; we simply cannot draw any conclusions.

Within a DNA molecule, there are specific nucleotide binding patterns, a phenomenon called “complementary base pairing.” Specific pyrimidine nucleotides can only bind to specific purine bases: cytosine binds to guanine via three hydrogen bonds and adenine binds to thymine via hydrogen bonds. Normally, within a DNA molecule, no other base pair combinations exist. These specific complementary base pairs allow DNA to take the form of a double helix. The double helix can be most simply described as a twisted ladder; the base pairs and their hydrogen bonds represent the rungs, and the sugar-phosphate backbone represents the sides of the ladder.

Cytosine and guanine form three hydrogen bonds between each other, while tyrosine and adenine form two hydrogen bonds. We simply need to count how many of each base we have and multiple cytosine and guanine by three, and thymine and adenine by two.

CGTTTGAC has 2 cytosine, 2 guanine, 3 thymine, and 1 adenine.

This question is mostly about the differentiations between a nucleoside and a nucleotide. A nucleoside is composed of a nitrogenous base and a ribose or deoxyribose sugar. A nitrogenous base, a ribose/deoxyribose sugar, and a phosphate describe a nucleotide. Remember that nucleosides are incomplete nucleotides, and lack a phosphate group.

The diagram depicts two purines (adenine and guanine), identifiable by their pyrimidine-imidazole double-ring structure. Pyrimidines (such at thymine and cytosine) have only one ring, amino acids have both amine and carboxylic acid groups, and ribose and deoxyribose are pentameric sugars (and contain no nitrogen).