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What is the double helix structure of DNA? Explain.

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The genome of an organism constitues all the genes present in the chromosomes. The chromosome contains DNA and the segments of DNA are genes. DNA has a complex structure model with two parallel threads of nucleotides coiled around each other. This arrangement is known as ‘double helix’.

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