Illustrated Glossary of Organic Chemistry
Base
pair (Watson-Crick
base
pair):
A set of two
nucleobases
joined by two or three
hydrogen bonds
.
Watson-Crick
Base
Pairs in
DNA
Adenine
-
Thymine
Guanine
-
Cytosine
Related terms:
RNA
,
secondary structure
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