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Postby prateeiik » Sat Jan 03, 2009 5:18 pm

Does guanine have two binding sites as compared to the other nitrogenous bases??
Please confirm!!
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Postby canan5000 » Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:59 pm

Please clarify what you mean by binding site. Guanine does have two sites that it can bind (hydrogen bonds) to cytosine with when it is in DNA. Hope this is the binding you were looking for.
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Postby whizzbee » Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:24 pm

I think there are 3 hydrogen bonds between guanine and cytosine, and 2 hydrogen bonds between adenine and thymine.
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Postby MrMistery » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:39 pm

whizzbee is right
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