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GC-content
In genetics, guanine-cytosine content (GC-content) is a characteristic of the genome of any given organism or any other piece of DNA or RNA. Usually expressed as a percentage, it is the proportion of GC-base pairs in the DNA molecule or genome sequence being investigated.
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