How many hydrogen bonds are present in a DNA duplex, if one chain of DNA has sequence ATTAGC?

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Solution

There are two hydrogen bonds between an adenine and thymine and three hydrogen bonds between a guanine and cytosine.

For ATTAGC its complementary strand would be TAATCG and there would be a total of 14 hydrogen bonds between the strands.

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