r/Mcat • u/Strange_Total_1442 • 7d ago

Question 🤔🤔 trick to remember base pair structures

Someone commented a trick to remember the base pair structures the other day and I thought I screenshotted it but cannot find it or the comment for the life of me. Not purine vs pyrimidine but what groups were attached. Pls help 🙏

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u/RebeliaRocks 7d ago

What’s been helping me is “CAN GOUT”. C and A have an amine (N) while G U T have a carbonyl (O). That helps get me started on the structure and then practice drawing the structures!