In a given $DNA$ segment the number of nucleotides of guanine is $75$ and those of thymine is $75$. The total number of nucleotides in the segment will be
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(d)Number of guanine is equal to cytosine and that of thymine is equal to ademine, hence total number of nucleotides is sum of all the fourbases.
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