Can thymine and guanine complement each other? Is this arrangement better or worse than the complementation of thymine with adenine and guanine with cytosine? Explain your reasoning.Can thymine and guanine complement each other? Is this arrangement better or worse than the complementation of thymine with adenine and guanine with cytosine? Explain your reasoning.
Adenine forms 2 hydrogen bonds with Thymine.
Guanine forms 3 hydrogen bonds with Cytosine.
It is called complementary base pairing because each base can only bond with the corresponding base partner. The structures complement each other like a lock and a key.
C will only bond with G and A will only bond with T in DNA. So, Thymine and Guanine cannot complement each other.
This arrangement is worse than the complementation of thymine with adenine and guanine with cytosine because A-T and G-C are complementary base pairs.
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