AT content

(thing) by BioTech Fri Aug 09 2002 at 19:45:31

The percentage of nitrogenous bases on a DNA molecule which are either adenine or thymine (from a possibility of four different ones, also including cytosine and guanine).

Also see GC content.


From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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