Given below is a sample of a portion of DNA strand giving the base sequence on the opposite strands. What is so special shown in it? 5′ _____ GAATTC _____ 3′ 3′ _____ CTTAAG _____ 5′ (a) Replication completed (b) Deletion mutation (c) Start codon at the 5′ end (d) Palindromic sequence of base pairs

Given below is a sample of a portion of DNA strand
giving the base sequence on the opposite strands.
What is so special shown in it?
5′ _____ GAATTC _____ 3′
3′ _____ CTTAAG _____ 5′
(a) Replication completed
(b) Deletion mutation
(c) Start codon at the 5′ end
(d) Palindromic sequence of base pairs
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(d) Palindromic sequence of base pairs
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