complementary base pairs

complementary base pairs
The crucial property of DNA is that the two strands are complementary: Guanine and cytosine are complementary and pair up through their hydrogen bonds, as are adenine and thymine that only form two hydrogen bonds. (adenine and uracil in RNA).

Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.

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