Base Pair

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Introduction

• 2 nucleotides in DNA or RNA paired by hydrogen bonds. The common bairs pairs are purine-pyrimidine pairs, including:

*  adenine - thymine   or  A - T  (DNA) 
*  adenine - uracil    or  A - U  (RNA) 
*  guanine - cytosine  or  G - C  (DNA, RNA)

• It is the selectivity of these base pairs that allows sequences of them to store biological information in DNA & be transcribed in the form of RNA.

More General Terms

• biochemistry

References

Alperts et al Molecular Biology of the Cell, Garland Publishing, New York, NY 1989

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