Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

Erwin Chargaff's groundbreaking research, which showed that DNA base pairs had a complementary relationship, laid the foundation for James Watson's and Francis Crick's DNA model. When word spread that ...

This base-to-base bonding is not random; rather, each A in one strand always pairs with a T in the other strand, and each C always pairs with a G. The double-stranded DNA that results from this ...

Each contains one side of the original DNA and one side made of "new" nucleotides. It is possible that mistakes were made along the way -- in other words, that a base pair in one DNA molecule ...

This phenomenon is known as complementary base pairing (Figure 4), and it results in the production of two complementary strands of DNA. Base pairing ensures that the sequence of nucleotides in ...

A DNA sequence is a specific lineup of chemical base pairs along its strand. The part of DNA that determines what protein to produce and when, is called a gene. First established in 1985 by Sir ...

And each time this happens, your entire genetic library—your genome, which totals more than 3 billion base pairs of DNA—has ...

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity, the inherited traits that pass between generations in a person's family tree. Embodied in the sequence of base pairs, DNA carries information between ...

DNA analysis is crucial for identifying individuals and their relatives, using technologies like PCR, electrophoresis, and ...

The highly specific nucleotide interaction following the Watson-Crick base pairing rule, as well as the chemically tunable groups present in DNA, makes it possible to encode both structural and ...

New crystallography images show that artificial DNA bases take on a surprisingly normal geometry when bound by polymerase. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and water, ...