Self Assessment Answer # 6
for Lesson 19

by Dr Jamie Love Creative Commons Licence 2002 - 2005


There are three pyrimidines and two purines.

The pyrimidines are …
Cytosine (C)
Thymine (T)
Uracil (U)

The pyrimidines are …
Adenine (A)
Guanine (G)

And they pair …
Cytosine (C) to Guanine (G) via three hydrogen bonds
Thymine (T) to Adenine (A) via two hydrogen bonds
Uracil (U) to Adenine (A) via two hydrogen bonds

The Thymine (T) to Adenine (A) pair is only found in DNA while the Uracil (U) to Adenine (A) is only found in RNA.


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