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

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References

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