Chargaff's Ratio | HHMI's BioInteractive - 1 views
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Lottie Peppers on 28 Sep 14In 1950, Erwin Chargaff published a paper stating that in the DNA of any given species, the ratio of adenine to thymine is equal, as is the ratio of cytosine to guanine. This became known as Chargaff's ratio, and it was an important clue for solving the structure of DNA.