Question

What are complementary base patterns? Why are they important?

Answer 1

Answer: Complimentary base patterns are the way two bases match up together for example only adenine matches up with thymine and only cytosine matches with guanine.

Answer 2

Complementary base patterns are the phenomenon in which guanine binds with cytosine and adenine paired with thymine in DNA

Explanation:

• Complimentary base are the base of DNA and RNA. These base constitutes the structure of Nucleic acids(DNA and RNA).
• For DNA complimentary base are adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine. Guanine is a complementary base of cytosine, whereas adenine is a complementary base of thymine.
• In RNA uracil is present rather than thymine.
• Complimentary base patterns are the arrangement of the complimentary base.
• The Complementary base pairing is important as in DNA the base pairs are arranged in sauch a way that give the DNA a helical structure.
• Arrangement of base pair helps in matching the DNA.

Result: Complementary base patterns are bases of Nucleic acids.