The results support the conclusion that hydrogen bonding between template base and incoming nucleotide is not an absolute requirement for base pair synthesis by this enzyme, since the Z–F pair ...

Base pairing rules for DNA dictate that the hydrogen bonds work to join up appropriate nucleotide pairs like jigsaw pieces—adenine with thymine and cytosine with guanine. The scanning tunneling ...

A nucleotide is made up of three parts that ... that has a similar but anti-parallel structure with bonds called hydrogen bonds. These hydrogen bonds link the pyrimidines and purines in the ...

There are four bases: Adenine and Guanine (purines); Cytosine and Thymine (Pyrimidines). Purines have two carbon-nitrogen rings while pyrimidines have a single carbon-nitrogen ring. Thus, there ...