The melting point is:

A. the temperature at which double-stranded DNA begins to melt.
B. the temperature at which double-stranded DNA is completely melted.
C. the temperature at which double-stranded DNA is too single-stranded to ever renature back to double strands.
D. the temperature at which double-stranded DNA has become 50% single-stranded.
E. the temperature at which double-stranded nucleic acids degrade into free nucleotides.


D

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