In his experiments on the chemistry of $DNA$, Chargaff estimated the base composition of human sperms and found that Adenine constituted $31\%$ and Guanine $19\%$. The quantity of Cytosine in the $DNA$ of human somatic cell is likely to be
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(b)$19\%$; because '$G$' is always attached with '$C$' $(G \equiv C)$, thus percentage of $C$ will always be equal to $G$.
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