Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...
For instance, he was the first to discover the order of the three major components of a single nucleotide (phosphate-sugar-base); the ... double-helical model for the structure of DNA.
Free RNA nucleotides form hydrogen bonds with the exposed DNA strand nucleotides by complementary base pairing to form a strand of mRNA: Note - RNA nucleotides contain the same bases as DNA ...