The following functions are all intended to check whether a string representing a dna sequence contains any characters that are not 'a','c','g','t', 'A', 'C', 'G', or 'T'. At least some of these functions are wrong. Which ones are correct?

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The following functions are all intended to check whether a string representing a dna sequence contains any characters that are not 'a','c','g','t', 'A', 'C', 'G', or 'T'. At least some of these functions are wrong. Which ones are correct?

A)

  1. def valid_dna1(dna):
  2.     for c in dna:
  3.         if c in 'acgtACGT':
  4.             return True
  5.         else:
  6.             return False
B)
  1. def valid_dna3(dna):
  2.     for c in dna:
  3.         flag = c in 'acgtACGT'
  4.     return flag
C)
 
  1. def valid_dna4(dna):
  2.     for c in dna:
  3.         if not c in 'acgtACGT':
  4.             return False
  5.     return True

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  1. valid_dna1 only
  2. valid_dna4 only
  3. None of them.
  4. valid_dna1, and valid_dna4 only
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