Biology GCSE
hydrogen bonding
What hydrogen bonding means in Biology GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Bases pair via hydrogen bonds, with adenine pairing with thymine and guanine pairing with cytosine.
Weak bonds between opposite complementary bases that hold the two strands together.
Topics that use hydrogen bonding
Related terms
- active site
- Amino acid sequence
- Complementary base pairing
- compound measures
- controlled variables
- denaturation
- double helix
- enzyme investigations
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