Watson-Crick base pairing

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Classical And Molecular Genetics subtree

Watson-Crick 1953 Nobel 1962: A pairs with T (DNA) or U (RNA) via 2 H-bonds; G pairs with C via 3 H-bonds; antiparallel double helix; foundation of replication / transcription / sequencing.

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Mismatch repair (Modrich)

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