UNDERSTANDING HOOGSTEEN BASE PAIRING
Hoogsteen base pairing is a type of non-canonical base pairing that occurs in nucleic acids, such as DNA and RNA. It was first described by biochemist Karst Hoogsteen in 1963. In Hoogsteen base pairing, the orientation of the bases differs…
ACID AND BASE MODELS
Bronsted – Lowry and Lewis concept of acids and bases The Bronsted-Lowry and Lewis concepts are two different ways of defining acids and bases. The Bronsted-Lowry concept defines an acid as a substance that donates a proton (H+) and a…
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