True or false according to the principle of base pairing hydrogen bonds could form only between adenine and cytosine

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Ariella

27 December, 02:41

True or false according to the principle of base pairing hydrogen bonds could form only between adenine and cytosine

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Robert Sanford · Answer 1

Answer is: false.

According to the principle of base pairing hydrogen bonds could form between adenine and thymine (two hydrogen bonds between this nucleobases) and guanine and cytosine (three hydrogen bonds between this nucleobases).

Adenine and guanine are purine derivatives and thymine and cytosine are pyrimidine derivates.