(Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base pair, named after James Watson and Francis Crick, who first proposed the double helix structure of ...

Genome size is the total number of base pairs in an organism. While the number of genes in an organism's DNA (red bars) varies from species to species (numbers at right), it is not always ...

The entire human genome requires three gigabytes of computer data storage space. (One million base pairs of sequence data equals one megabyte of storage space; the human genome has three billion ...

Plasmids have a wide range of lengths, from roughly one thousand DNA base pairs to hundreds of thousands of base pairs. When a bacterium divides, all of the plasmids contained within the cell are ...

In the double helix structure of DNA, thymine forms a base pair with adenine through two hydrogen bonds. This specific pairing is known as complementary base pairing and is essential for the stability ...