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What is mean by the term base pairing?

Base pairing in DNA is very simple. It means that Adenine will always be paired with Thymine and Guanine will always be paired with Cytosine.


What is always paired with adenine?

Adenine is always paired with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA through hydrogen bonds.


What base pairing arrangement is found in double-stranded DNA?

Adenine is paired with thymine.Cytosine is paired with guanine.


What are the answers in BioSc 231 General Genetics Exam 3 answers?

The base thymine is always paired with ___.AdenineGuanineCytosineThymine


What are the nitrogenous pair combinations in dna?

In DNA, the nitrogenous base pairs are adenine (A) paired with thymine (T), and guanine (G) paired with cytosine (C). These base pairs are essential for maintaining the DNA double helix structure and are crucial for genetic information storage and replication.


What does a thymine do?

Thymine is an nitrogen base in our DNA. Thymine pairs up with the other nitrogen base Adenine. This creates one base pair. Thymine and the other base does not have a function. It is the combinations of bases that encode genetic information. The other bases pairs are Guanine and Cytosine and these two nitrogen bases are also one base pair. Thymine and Adenine are always paired up and shown as AT or TA. Similar to Guanine and Cytosine, they are always paired up and shown as CG or GC . If these base pairs shows up as AG or TC for example, then it'll be a mutation.


According to chargaffs rules which nucleotide is always paired with adenine in a DNA molecule?

Thymine is always paired with adenine in a DNA molecule according to Chargaff's rules. They form a complementary base pair, with adenine pairing with thymine through two hydrogen bonds.


Is uracil always paired with adenine in double-stranded DNA?

No, Uracil doesn't occur in double stranded DNA. Doublestranded DNA contains Guanine paired with Cytosine and Adenine paired with Thymine. In RNA, however, Adenine is always paired with Uracil instead of Thymine.


Did Watson's and crick's model account for the equal amounts of thymine and adenine in DNA?

Yes because they always paired thymine with adenine or always paired adenine with thymine, never pairing either with cytosine or guanine. Therefore they are in equal amounts.


How are N-bases of DNA molecules paired?

The N-bases of DNA paired in the way that adenine nitrogenous base always paired with the thymine (or with uracil in the case of RNA) base and guanine paired with the cytosine .Strong hydrogen bondings are present among them.


Why are Adenine and Thymine and Guanine and Cytosine always paired together?

they are always paired together because when DNA is replicated they always find each other.


What is a single ringed nitrogenous base?

Adenine is a single-ringed nitrogenous base found in DNA and RNA, paired with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA.