How Did Chargaff's Rules Contribute to Watson and Crick's Elucidation

question 14

Multiple Choice

How did Chargaff's rules contribute to Watson and Crick's elucidation of the structure of DNA?

• A) The rules suggested an equal concentration of sugars and phosphates.
• B) The rules suggested the amounts of all four bases were equal.
• C) The rules suggested the base-pairing combinations of adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine.
• D) The rules suggested that each base corresponds to an amino acid.

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