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 ... kept a lively and friendly correspondence with ... Lab safety rules dictate that one ...

The complementary base pairing in DNA leads to a specific ratio of nucleobases, known as Chargaff's rule. According to this rule, the amount of adenine is equal to the amount of thymine, and the ...

Many people believe that American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick discovered DNA ... pair held together by hydrogen bonds, but the structure also reflected Chargaff's ...