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Short answer: Adenine More information: In the model of DNA that was discovered by Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953 proposed that DNA was a double helix structure with 4 bases which pair to each other. Due to experiments that had been carried out by other scientists at the time (namely Erwin Chargoff in 1949) he showed that despite the amount of DNA present the amount of adenine was always equal to the amount of thymine and the amount of cytosine to the amount of guanine. When Watson had this information he suddenly realised that the adenine-thymine bond was the same length as the cytosine-guanine bond and therefore they would pair to each other in a double helix model. Thymine and adenine are held together by a double hydrogen bond; whereas cytosine and guanine form a triple hydrogen bond.

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