How to calculate percentage of bases in DNA using Chargaff’s rule

Chargaff’s rules states that DNA from any cell of all organisms should have a 1:1 ratio (base Pair Rule) of pyrimidine and purine bases and, more specifically, that the amount of guanine is equal to cytosine and the amount of adenine is equal to thymine. This pattern is found in both strands of the DNA. They were discovered by Austrian chemist Erwin Chargaff. First parity rule The first rule holds that a double-stranded DNA molecule globally has percentage base pair equality: %A = %T and %G = %C. The rigorous validation of the rule constitutes the basis of Watson-Crick pairs in the DNA double helix model Second parity rule The second rule holds that both %A ~ %T and %G ~ %C are valid for each of the two DNA strands. This describes only a global feature of the base composition in a single DNA strand. #ChargaffsRules #DNA #Guanine #Cytosine #ChargaffsRule #pyrimidine #purine #Adenine #thymine #dnaReplication #chargaffsRuleOfDna #chargaffsRuleProblems #watsonAndCrick #chargaffsRuleExplained #dnaBasesPairing #complementaryBasePairing #DNASequence #dnaComplementarySequence #dnaSequenceComplementaryStrand #andThymine #dnaSemiConservativeReplication #replicationFork #dnaReplicationSong #dnaTranscription #initiation #elongation #termination