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How are bases named?

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Cytosine pairs with guanine Adenine pairs with thymine (or with uracil in RNA)

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Bases are named by chemists as ionic compounds. The two ions in an ionic compound are positively charged ions called cations, and negatively charged ions called anions.

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They are named like ionic compounds are.

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