This is an old revision of the document!
Base pair: a term used to describe how nitrogenous basesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigNitrogenous bases: ringed chemical structures that are part of nucleotides. They include adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), and cytosine (C) in DNA, and uracil (U) that substitutes for thymine in RNA. in nucleic acids interact with each other via hydrogen bondsplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigHydrogen bond: a type of weak noncovalent bond that forms between atoms that are part of a dipole movement. to form double-stranded molecules (including dsDNAplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDouble-stranded DNA (dsDNA): DNA that consists of two complementary strands of ssDNA paired together via hydrogen bonds between the nitrogenous bases G, A, T, and C., dsRNA, and DNAplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigDNA: deoxyribonucleic acid. The genetic material for nearly all life on Earth./RNA hybrids).