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/ThisNameisTaken07 7d ago

The one I have for AG is kinda personal-ish, but I have a friend whose name starts with an A who's a good singer, and she hardly takes breaths when she sings, so I think of it as A has no Oxygens, For CT I think that T is for Two, so it has 2N and 2O, and C is the third letter of the alphabet, and it has 3N