Relation between melting temperature and g-c content of dna

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Relation between melting temperature and g-c content of dna

1) Represent graphically the relation between melting temperature and the G-C content of DNA.

a) Construct relations for dependence of melting temperature of a 30 bp DNA duplex on the G-C content. For series of the DNA chains where we vary the number of G-C pairs, plot how Tm changes as a function of f, the fraction of G-C pairs, ranging from 0.33 (i.e.  10 G-C pairs) to 0.67 (i.e 30 G-C) pairs.

b) From observation, list other factors other than G-C content seem to control Tm?

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