{"id":598,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"the-base-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"The Base Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Base Twins<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In DNA, the purines are Adenine (A), Guanine (G). These purines form hydrogen bonds with pyrimidines Cytosine (C) and Thymine (T). In RNA, Uracile (U) replaces the Thymine. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The hydrogen bonding between complementary base pairs is such that the most energetically stable DNA configuration is achieved when Adenine pairs with Thymine and Guanine pairs with Cytosine, like 2 pairs of &quot;like-minded&quot; TWINS. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The atoms in bases and sugars are numbered sequentially:<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" border=\"0\" style=\"width: 389px; height: 329px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"130\" width=\"100\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Adenine.gif\" \/><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><b>Adenine<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: Arial; color: red;\">=<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"122\" width=\"117\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Thy-mine.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><b><b>Thymine<\/b><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"120\" width=\"125\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Guanine.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><b>Guanine<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; color: red;\">=<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 100px; height: 130px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Cytosine.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Cytosine<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In order to reduce the volume occupied by billions of base-Twins in a straight-up straight line configuration, the DNA strands are coiled by laying all 2 nucleotide base-Twins flat and rotated above each other, like a helix ladder, in a meta-physical tube made of ratcheting pentagons. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">That way, six straight feet of linear DNA is coiled up in such a way that it can fit in the microscopic nucleus of every new cell produced. Most DNA configurations are like this. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=597\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Base Twins In DNA, the purines are Adenine (A), Guanine (G). These purines form hydrogen bonds with pyrimidines Cytosine (C) and Thymine (T). In RNA, Uracile (U) replaces the Thymine. The hydrogen bonding between complementary base pairs is such that the most energetically stable DNA configuration is achieved when Adenine pairs with Thymine and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}